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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mollusk think of the development of eyesight?
(a) It's impossibly difficult.
(b) It's a terrible curse for those who have it.
(c) It's something that eventually all things must do.
(d) It's a trivial task compared to making a shell to be seen.

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

3. In the world millions of years later, where does the narrator see the image of the first female mollusk he interacts with?
(a) In all women.
(b) In only photographs and representations of women.
(c) In only one woman he sees for a fleeting moment.
(d) Nowhere.

4. How much does the narrator plan the details of his shell's appearance?
(a) He plans it in specific detail, and it turns out as planned.
(b) He plans it in specific detail, but it doesn't turn out quite like planned.
(c) He plans a general outline.
(d) He doesn't plan it at all.

5. What does Qfwfq identify as the first numbers to exist?
(a) The numbers i and 0.
(b) The numbers pi and phi.
(c) The numbers e and pi.
(d) The numbers 0 and 1.

6. What does one of the spectators at the fight between Zahn and Qfwfq call out?
(a) Run, Dinosaur!
(b) Die, Dinosaur!
(c) He's a Dinosaur!
(d) Give it to him, Dinosaur!

7. To what does the narrator compare the paths of the characters' falls?
(a) Vines on a trellis.
(b) Metal chains.
(c) Strands of hair.
(d) Lines of handwriting.

8. How does Dean (k)yK react when Qfwfq loses a bet?
(a) He frowns, thinking that though he's won one bet, he's lost too many.
(b) He solemnly chides Qfwfq's foolishness.
(c) He is polite and happy.
(d) He laughs at Qfwfq.

9. What is N'ba N'ga's relationship to Qfwfq?
(a) He is an elder third cousin.
(b) He is a great-grandfather.
(c) He is a grandfather.
(d) He is a great-uncle.

10. Where does Qfwfq want Lll to come away with him to?
(a) An underwater garden.
(b) A plain beyond the mountain.
(c) A system of caverns in the forest.
(d) An island in the river.

11. 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 jealous of N'ba N'ga's watery home.
(d) Qfwfq is embarrassed by N'ba N'ga.

12. What sign does the narrator finally choose as his response to the first sign?
(a) So what?
(b) What do you mean?
(c) Who cares.
(d) What of it?

13. How does Lieutenant Fenimore react when the narrator indicates he's seen a universe?
(a) He is horrified.
(b) He is irritated.
(c) He is thrilled.
(d) He is contemptuous.

14. 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) The same number who saw the first.
(b) Less than saw the first.
(c) No one.
(d) More than saw the first.

15. What does the second sign that the narrator sees through his telescope say?
(a) I know it.
(b) I know you.
(c) I saw you.
(d) I saw it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the narrator certain Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore can't meet?

3. What do the New Ones do when they find the dinosaur body?

4. What begins to happen to Qfwfq and Dean (k)yK's bets after humanity appears on the scene?

5. What does Qfwfq predict will happen to stars?

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