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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thorby's real name?
(a) Thorby Baslim.
(b) T.B. Rain.
(c) Thor Bradley Rudbek.
(d) Thor Edward Rudbek.

2. What is the play about?
(a) The life of the first Captain Krausa.
(b) The life of the Chief Officer.
(c) The life of the Family.
(d) The life of those who live on Sisu.

3. How do the creatures on Finster trade?
(a) By hand signals.
(b) By verbal communication.
(c) By telepathy.
(d) By moving piles of merchandise around.

4. What is Thorby to buy from the man at the shipyard area?
(a) A meat pie.
(b) A cold drink.
(c) A piece of steel.
(d) A ticket onto a ship.

5. What game did Mata want Thorby to play before dinner?
(a) Ping-Pong.
(b) Chess.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Spatball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What art did Baslim learn as a young man?

2. What is manumission?

3. What is the ship's "secret language"?

4. What language did Thorby learn living in the bachelor's quarters?

5. Who has been swapped out of the computer firecontrol room?

(see the answer key)

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