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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Dunworthy and Mary do after Kivrin disappears into the past?
(a) The Red Leopard.
(b) The Cakes and Ale.
(c) The Lion's Roar.
(d) The Lamb and Cross.

2. Where is Kivrin?
(a) In a village name Shewsbutter.
(b) In the village she planned to be.
(c) She cannot understand the name of the place.
(d) About 100 leagues from where she had planned.

3. Who is the head of the History Department at Oxford?
(a) Montoya.
(b) Brougman.
(c) Dunworthy.
(d) Basingame.

4. What village is being excavating near the University?
(a) Killick.
(b) Skendgate.
(c) Chantrisbury.
(d) Sparroth.

5. What does Kivrin try to do with the wagon?
(a) Hide it.
(b) Sleep in it.
(c) Move it closer to the road.
(d) Take it apart.

6. Why are the church bells tolled?
(a) To praise God.
(b) To keep them from rusting.
(c) To announce the death of someone.
(d) For the bell ringer to practice.

7. What do many angry people want to do?
(a) Go find Kivrin.
(b) Continue research.
(c) Leave the city.
(d) Find a decent place to sleep.

8. Where does Kivrin beg to return to?
(a) The United States.
(b) England.
(c) The moon.
(d) The drop site.

9. Why do they generally not send historians to the medieval period?
(a) There is not much to learn from that time period.
(b) They are afraid of bringing back the plague.
(c) The language is too different from modern English.
(d) It is dangerous.

10. What is Badri supposed to do?
(a) Get a fix on Kivrin's location.
(b) Wait in the lab for Kivrin's return signal.
(c) Watch Kivrin on the video screen.
(d) Monitor Kivrin's vital signs.

11. Where does Dunworthy take Badri?
(a) To Badri's home.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The college infirmary.
(d) To Dunworthy's home.

12. Why does Kivrin hide a box?
(a) To have it for all her equipment later.
(b) To use it later to locate the drop site.
(c) She is afraid of brigands.
(d) She is afraid someone would find her with it and think she was a witch.

13. What is Dunworthy and others told as they are released from the hospital?
(a) They will need another blood transfusion in two days.
(b) They can not leave the city.
(c) They are fully recovered and need take no more precautions.
(d) They are to stay on bed rest.

14. What do they do to the city?
(a) Try to start disinfecting all the public places.
(b) They are decorating the city for a festival.
(c) Nothing yet.
(d) Quarantine it.

15. What does a medic ask of Dunworthy's group?
(a) If the virus could have come through the net.
(b) If they will be medical guinea pigs.
(c) If Kivrin could be ground zero patient.
(d) If anyone who is not in that town has called to report being ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of Americans are shortly expected?

2. What connection do Mary and Dunworthy find with the spread of the virus?

3. What is not working?

4. How many hours slippage does Badri say there was?

5. What is Kivrin now certain of?

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