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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Olsndot's wife?
(a) Joanne.
(b) Squana.
(c) Wiget.
(d) Sjane.

2. What does Steel contemplate?
(a) Throwing all the aliens out of the ship once it is in space.
(b) Going with the aliens to learn of other cultures.
(c) Keeping the aliens alive as slaves and experiemental subjects.
(d) Killing all the star people.

3. Where are Blueshell and Greenstalk sent?
(a) To produce their third generation.
(b) To an island prison.
(c) To rescue some miners stranded in the Blight.
(d) On a secret mission to the Bottom of the Beyond.

4. What have the Straumli inadvertently created?
(a) A convoluted maze.
(b) A loop.
(c) A great intelligence.
(d) A paradox.

5. What does Scriber wonder about Johanna?
(a) Why she is always angry with those trying to help her.
(b) Why she refuses to learn their language.
(c) What sort of creature is with her in one of her holos.
(d) Why she refuses to meld.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Steel want to use against the Woodcarvers?

2. What does Peregrine offer Johanna?

3. How is the archive described?

4. How long does the narrator figure the archive has been lost to the net?

5. How does Scriber cheer up Johanna?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what is Tyrathect concerned and can she do anything about it?

2. How are Peregrine and Scriber received in the Woodcarver's Domain and what happens to Johanna when she arrives with them?

3. Why does Pham distrust Steel?

4. Explain what the material in OOB's library says about the origins of Riders.

5. In what condition is the ship in which the Olsndot family escapes Earth by the time it reaches an unnamed and habitable world?

6. What do Peregrine Wickwrackrum and Scriber Jaqueramaphan observe and how do they describe the Olsndot's ship?

7. How does Pham occupy his time while the OOB draws closer to the planet where Jefri awaits?

8. Describe Pham.

9. Describe Blueshell and Greenstalk.

10. What do Pham and Ravna think is behind the ambush by the Riders at Saint Rihndell's Repair Harbor?

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