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

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

3. What are the main things the narrator is aware of beyond himself?
(a) The mud and the plants.
(b) The dirt and the rain.
(c) The sky and the air.
(d) The rock and the water.

4. How does the narrator feel about the female he comes to notice?
(a) He hates her.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He is irritated by her.
(d) He doesn't care about her.

5. What does Qfwfq do when a New One first calls to him?
(a) He stands perfectly still and hides.
(b) He attacks the New One.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He pretends to be dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does N'ba N'ga live?

2. What does one of the spectators at the fight between Zahn and Qfwfq call out?

3. What are the first things Qfwfq and Dean (k)yK have to bet with?

4. What does N'ba N'ga say his relatives get from living on land?

5. How does the narrator know about females of his species?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Qfwfq describe Dean (k)yK, on a typical day in the present?

2. What is the attitude of the New Ones to the Dinosaurs, when Qfwfq first encounters the New Ones after his period of isolation?

3. What does Qfwfq do with the body of the dinosaur the New Ones find?

4. What second enormous hand sign does the narrator make, and why?

5. How do the New Ones' perception of dinosaurs change over the time Qfwfq is with them?

6. What does N'ba N'ga like about the water where he lives?

7. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.

8. When does the narrator suppose that he might finally meet Ursula, and what does he fear about that potential meeting?

9. How does Zahn first react to Qfwfq?

10. In what way, according to the narrator's description, does the existence of a shell bring about eyes and the ability to see?

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