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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Walmsley been waiting for Toby?
(a) Nearly fifty thousand years.
(b) A millenium.
(c) Almost thirty thousand years.
(d) A million years.

2. In "The Esty Wind," what do Toby and Quath see as they walk in the Lane?
(a) The creation of a city.
(b) The "sky" closing in.
(c) The "ground" below them dissolving.
(d) A sheet peeling off a cliff.

3. Where do Toby and Quath rest while trying to find their way back from the Redoubt?
(a) At the base of a cliff.
(b) In a deep field.
(c) Inside a pearly pyramid.
(d) At a shifting waterfall.

4. Who/what awakens Toby in "Time's Grip?"
(a) A strange sound.
(b) Shibo's Personality.
(c) Quath.
(d) An odd sensation.

5. What does Toby smell in "Salvage?"
(a) A sour scent.
(b) A burnt scent.
(c) A foul scent.
(d) A floral scent.

6. How does Toby evade the mech sniffer in "Salvage?"
(a) He shoots it.
(b) He hides in the shadows.
(c) He scrambles its sensors.
(d) He swims underwater.

7. In "Mind Surgery," what does Toby take from his field kit?
(a) Bandages.
(b) Fresh water.
(c) Food.
(d) Tools.

8. What does Toby think of the injured man's new face?
(a) It looks real.
(b) It reminds him of someone.
(c) It looks like a mask.
(d) It will not work out.

9. What information did the esty dwellers want from Quath?
(a) Information about the mechs' work on antimatter.
(b) Information about The Hunker Down.
(c) Information about Toby and his kind.
(d) Information about how the Myriapodia evolved.

10. In "The Rock of Chaos," what happens when the timestone ruptures?
(a) A stalk-thing pokes out.
(b) A mech flies out.
(c) Quath falls into a crevice.
(d) The Redoubt starts to disintegrate.

11. What is the white patch that Toby sees in "The Sea of Sand?"
(a) Naked dead bodies.
(b) A dwelling.
(c) A pile of bones.
(d) White sand.

12. How was the man in "Casualties" injured?
(a) He fell down a well.
(b) He was shot.
(c) Something exploded near him.
(d) He was beaten up.

13. What happens to Toby and Quath after they stop falling from the esty?
(a) They are arrested.
(b) They stop in the middle of a desert.
(c) They are swallowed up by a pinhole.
(d) They are tossed in separate directions.

14. What does Toby do after he removes the Shibo chip?
(a) He rests while the Faces make repairs.
(b) He pitches forward into a tunnel.
(c) He cleans himself up in a stream.
(d) He screams.

15. What does Toby do when he finds the dead bird that spoke to him?
(a) He revives it.
(b) He buries it.
(c) He burns it to ashes.
(d) He offers it to the Mantis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Mind Surgery," what do the mechs want to do?

2. From what family is the pyramid dwarf?

3. What injury does Toby sustain in "Hard Spark?"

4. In "Time's Grip," what does Toby notice about the first bird he sees in the Lane?

5. In "Eating the Storm," what does Toby notice about the bird that lands nearby?

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