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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What example of a detailed bet that he makes does Qfwfq give?
(a) Where the Great Pyramids will be located.
(b) Whether the Assyrians will invade Mesopotamia.
(c) What shape Australia's coastline will take.
(d) How deep the Grand Canyon will be.

3. What does Qfwfq predict will happen to stars?
(a) They will begin emitting helium.
(b) They will break into smaller stars.
(c) They will burst into fire.
(d) They will slowly grow in size.

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

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

6. Where are the universes that the narrator sees as he falls?
(a) Always above him as he falls away from them.
(b) Very far away so he almost thinks they're illusions.
(c) So near he can almost touch them.
(d) All around, always near, but never crossing his path.

7. What type of fish is N'ba N'ga?
(a) Tetraodontidae.
(b) Rhincodontidae.
(c) Coelacanthus.
(d) Exocoetus.

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

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

10. How do the New Ones subsist?
(a) They catch fish from the river.
(b) They grow vegetables in gardens.
(c) They hunt deer in the woods.
(d) They gather berries, mushrooms, and vegetables from the woods.

11. Why does Qfwfq bet that there will be atoms?
(a) He reads a sign from a previous universe and interprets that it means there will be atoms soon.
(b) He makes mathematical calculations and predicts the atoms are coming.
(c) He sees one atom and realizes that more will probably follow soon.
(d) He gets a strange feeling like the weather is changing and intuits that atoms are coming.

12. What sign does the narrator read that at first he's happy about, but later is disappointed by?
(a) Who's that fantastic fellow?
(b) This guy's pretty swell.
(c) Hey, fella, good job.
(d) That character's really on the ball.

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

14. What do the New Ones do when they find the dinosaur body?
(a) They hold a trial to determine the fate of the dinosaur.
(b) They burn the body out of fear.
(c) They move away from the area, now taboo.
(d) They celebrate.

15. How does Dean (k)yK try to back out of the bet that there will be atoms?
(a) He accuses Qfwfq of cheating on the bet.
(b) He denies that he ever accepted a bet.
(c) He says that they never shook hands on the bet.
(d) He tries to deny that the atoms are atoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the narrator plan the details of his shell's appearance?

2. Who does Ursula H'x always look at as she falls?

3. When Ursula H'x begins swaying during her fall, what does Lieutenant Fenimore do?

4. What swarm of insects does the narrator describe flying through the air in the second part of the story, in the railway embankment scene?

5. After the narrator speculates that Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore might have met at some time in the past, what does he deduce from this speculation?

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