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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. What does Calvin tell Mr. Jenkins about plants and communication and distance?
(a) distance is irrelevant
(b) plants like you to stay about three feet away
(c) he didn't mention distance at all
(d) the closer you stay to your plants the better

2. What about Sporos makes him vulnerable to the Echthroi?
(a) his family background
(b) his pride
(c) his age
(d) his immaturity

3. What did Calvin do with his second and third bean seed?
(a) planted them in the twin's garden
(b) planted them by the star-watching rock
(c) planted it in the library
(d) threw them in the yard

4. What does Meg do when she summons up enough love to love the Echthroi?
(a) starts to laugh
(b) Xes herself
(c) starts to sing
(d) dances

5. How did Calvin treat his second bean seed?
(a) he left it completely alone
(b) he watered it but ignored it
(c) he yelled at it
(d) he watered and sang to it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blajeny ask Mr. Jenkins?

2. What is the dance of the little farandolae doing?

3. How long does an Echthros tend to appear as a human body they've used?

4. What does the song the group hear do?

5. Who followed them to Yadah?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is deepening, how does it feel and why do some avoid it?

2. Why does Calvin tell Jenkins about the biologist and Calvin's bean plants?

3. What does Mr. Jenkins think is happening to him and what does Blajeny say is the truth?

4. What did Progo say about Sporos and the Echthroi?

5. What does Progo tell Meg about why she was in pain?

6. What does Meg do after Progo Xes himself?

7. What happens to Mr. Jenkins in the schoolyard after he faints?

8. What does Meg hear the Echthros-Jenkins say to the dancing farandolae?

9. What does Jenkins feel he lacks and how do he and Meg resolve their differences?

10. What does Meg do when the Echthroi takes over Mr. Jenkins?

(see the answer keys)

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