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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the sign "This time I like you." refers to?
(a) The time he locked himself out of his house.
(b) The time he wore mismatched socks.
(c) The time he left a manuscript on a train.
(d) The time he ignored the doorbell because he didn't wat to see his great-aunt.

2. How often does the whole family visit N'ba N'ga to get his advice?
(a) Once a decade.
(b) Once a century.
(c) Once a month.
(d) Once a year.

3. What does Lll dare Qfwfq to do when they are playing near the water?
(a) Make as big a splash as he can.
(b) Get as close to the water as he can.
(c) Hold his breath under water as long as he can.
(d) Run through the waves as fast as he can.

4. How does the narrator see the shape of space?
(a) As a complex shape of curves, indentations, and projections.
(b) As a long and smooth spiral.
(c) As a jagged-edged zig-zag.
(d) As a long curve that meets back with itself.

5. Who does the mollusk expect to develop sight but doesn't?
(a) The mollusk shells.
(b) Himself and the female mollusk.
(c) The ocean and the sky.
(d) The eggs that the mollusks lay.

6. What does Qfwfq discover when he goes to spy out the reported dinosaurs?
(a) They are aligators.
(b) They are hippopotamuses.
(c) They are ostriches.
(d) They are rhinoceroses.

7. How many people does the narrator expect will see the second event in his life, of which he is proud, compared to the first more shaming moment?
(a) Less than saw the first.
(b) More than saw the first.
(c) The same number who saw the first.
(d) No one.

8. What is the first bet Qfwfq makes before the beginning of the universe?
(a) That there will be a universe.
(b) That there was a previous universe.
(c) That matter will exist.
(d) That the universe will begin at a specific point.

9. Who does Ursula H'x always look at as she falls?
(a) Both the narrator and Lieutenant Fenimore.
(b) The narrator.
(c) No one.
(d) Lieutenant Fenimore.

10. What does N'ba N'ga say his relatives get from living on land?
(a) Coughs.
(b) Piles.
(c) Warts.
(d) Callouses.

11. How does the narrator first interact with a female?
(a) He dances around her.
(b) He bumps into her.
(c) He fertilizes her eggs.
(d) He follows her path.

12. When Ursula H'x begins swaying during her fall, what does Lieutenant Fenimore do?
(a) He looks away.
(b) He lunges toward her.
(c) He begins to imitate her swaying.
(d) He begins staring at her, hypnotized.

13. What does Lll do after N'ba N'ga says that he could teach her to live in the water?
(a) She immediately jumps in the water.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She gives N'ba N'ga a kiss.
(d) She laughs and runs off.

14. For how long does Qfwfq say he was a dinosaur?
(a) About fifty million years.
(b) About thirty million years.
(c) About eighty million years.
(d) About a hundred million years.

15. How does Qfwfq feel about N'ba N'ga?
(a) Qfwfq loves N'ba N'ga.
(b) Qfwfq is afraid of N'ba N'ga.
(c) Qfwfq is embarrassed by N'ba N'ga.
(d) Qfwfq is jealous of N'ba N'ga's watery home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the world millions of years later, where does the narrator see the image of the first female mollusk he interacts with?

2. What job does Zahn recommend Qfwfq for, which Qfwfq would rather not do?

3. Which of the following impossible fantasies does the narrator have in his shapeless form?

4. What does Ursula H'x do as she falls?

5. What example of a detailed bet that he makes does Qfwfq give?

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