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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must Pham let Bluestalk fly him to the planet's surface?
(a) To demonstrate that he trusts Bluestalk.
(b) So Bluestalk can be first out of the shuttle.
(c) So Pham has his hands free to fight.
(d) The landing boat lacks automation.

2. How does the gray fungus examine a puppy's brain?
(a) It has not learned to to that yet.
(b) By taking over the brain stem.
(c) By passing filaments painlessly inside.
(d) By entwining itself throughout the brain cells.

3. What does Pham want to be able to describe?
(a) How to convert sodium and ash to gunpowder.
(b) How he is able to know the Old One's mind even after the Old One is dead.
(c) How it feels to have a godself die.
(d) How the Old One commits suicide.

4. What fails deep in the Slow Zone?
(a) Speech.
(b) Alliances.
(c) Replicators.
(d) Ultradrives.

5. What does Johanna find upsetting about the Tines' behavior in the wild?
(a) They litter.
(b) They kill forest creatures for fun more than necessity.
(c) They destroy trees for no reason.
(d) They do not bathe.

6. What does Steel worry that Amdijefri will see?
(a) Through his mask.
(b) That Steel intends to kill Amdijefri.
(c) The way he tortures newborn pups.
(d) The fact that Johanna is alive.

7. What is Flenser subtly trying to undermine?
(a) Steel's thoughts.
(b) Woodcarver's position as leader.
(c) The way the rescue ship perceives the planet's organization.
(d) Amdijefri's respect for Steel.

8. How does Amdijefri communicated with Ravna?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Pictures.
(c) By text.
(d) Sine waves.

9. What does Peregrine do to gain Johanna's release?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Brings Woodcarver to confront Vendacious.
(c) Surrounds Vendacious with crack troops.
(d) Bluffs.

10. What does Greenstalk explain about the Zones?
(a) They are in flux.
(b) They are about to dissolve.
(c) They are stable.
(d) He makes no comments about the Zones.

11. What does Steel project to the masses?
(a) Jefri.
(b) Ravna.
(c) Flenser.
(d) Johanna.

12. What does Vendacious reveal to Johanna about Jefri?
(a) That he is fighting for the other side.
(b) That he is in statis in Steel's castle.
(c) That he is alive.
(d) That he has been rescued.

13. With whom has Steel run out of patience?
(a) Woodcarver's army.
(b) Jefri.
(c) Tyrathect,
(d) Vendacious.

14. What does Ravna deny to Svendndot?
(a) That OOB is harboring riders.
(b) That OOB plans to use the technology on the cargo cruiser they are rescuing.
(c) That OOB belongs to the Alliance or the Blight.
(d) That the riders on OOB are agents of the Blight.

15. What does Tyrathect contemplate?
(a) Getting rid of Steel.
(b) Spreading out over the northland.
(c) Giving Steel a new pup.
(d) Melding with Steel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pham seem to exist?

2. How big is the fleet that is pursuing OOB?

3. Who are the three butterflies?

4. What does Scrupilo warn Woodcarver about Steel?

5. What is slowing OOB's progress?

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