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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. Where does N'ba N'ga live?
(a) In a quiet cove on the edge of the sea.
(b) In a bay inlet, near a waterfall.
(c) In a rock formation in a river.
(d) In the shallow edge of a lagoon.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) That Ursula H'x developed a love for Lieutenant Fenimore.
(b) That Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore are moving away from each other.
(c) That Ursula H'x developed a dislike for Lieutenant Fenimore.
(d) That Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore will circle around and meet again.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lieutenant Fenimore react when the narrator indicates he's seen a universe?

2. What variables does the narrator use to refer to the two moments in his life that he thinks others must be observing from far-away galaxies?

3. What bet does Qfwfq make about Signorina Giuseppina Pensotti before she (or humanity at all) yet exists?

4. What is N'ba N'ga's relationship to Qfwfq?

5. What unplanned benefit does the shell give the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the end of the mollusk's story, in what way does he encounter the female mollusk?

4. What happens to the initial wealth that Qfwfq builds up?

5. How does Zahn first react to Qfwfq?

6. How does the narrator describe being with Ursula H'x when their routes intersect?

7. What does the narrator think the first sign he sees is referring to?

8. Which bets does Qfwfq find most satisfying?

9. How does the narrator see evolution as confining?

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

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