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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. What job does Zahn recommend Qfwfq for, which Qfwfq would rather not do?
(a) Being ambassador to neighboring species.
(b) Defending the village.
(c) Ruling the village.
(d) Exploring new territory.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator see the shape of space?

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

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

4. What does Qfwfq predict will happen to stars?

5. Who gives Qfwfq and Dean (k)yK the libraries, magazines, and computers they need for their calculations?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.

6. Which bets does Qfwfq find most satisfying?

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

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

9. Why does the narrator get an enormous sign of a hand with a pointing finger?

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

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