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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 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) More than saw the first.
(d) No one.

2. What gives the narrator the idea that space has a shape and form?
(a) Watching universes fly by.
(b) Watching his own unconscious movements.
(c) Watching Ursula H'x move.
(d) Watching Lieutenant Fenimore move.

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

4. 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 one woman he sees for a fleeting moment.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) In only photographs and representations of women.

5. Where does the narrator strike Lieutenant Fenimore as he falls on him?
(a) On the gluteus maximus.
(b) On the cervical vertibrae.
(c) On the cranium.
(d) In the spleen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is a dinosaur body uncovered?

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

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

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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.

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. Describe the problems with the advice N'ba N'ga gives his family.

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

6. How does Zahn first react to Qfwfq?

7. Why does the narrator not want to show his desire to meet Ursula at the beginning of the story "The Form of Space"?

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

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

10. Describe N'ba N'ga's objections to living on land.

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