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

2. 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 how the Myriapodia evolved.
(d) Information about Toby and his kind.

3. What is Toby doing at the beginning of "Passing Currents?"
(a) Sitting in a pyramid.
(b) Standing with his feet on either side of a crevice.
(c) Arching his body to let the energy in.
(d) Lying on the ground.

4. What happens after a weight descends on Toby in "Eating the Storm?"
(a) Rain slams down.
(b) An earthquake knocks him off his feet.
(c) A volcano erupts.
(d) It begins to snow.

5. From where does Toby think the storm came?
(a) From another Lane.
(b) From the Mantis.
(c) From the forest.
(d) From the Family Bishop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Toby and Quath rest while trying to find their way back from the Redoubt?

2. In "Mind Surgery," what does Toby take from his field kit?

3. In "Passing Currents," what does Toby realize is different about the higher mechs?

4. What does the dwarf on the pyramid ask Toby?

5. For what are Toby and Quath looking at the start of "The Rock of Chaos?"

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Quath, why is Toby's hand pinned to a rock in "Time's Grip?"

2. What is Toby doing at the end of "Rational Laughter?"

3. In "Animal Spirits," why does Toby run from Killeen and Cermo?

4. Describe the injured man in "Casualties."

5. Describe the memories Toby has when he is in the maize field.

6. What is the woman doing in the maize fields?

7. Why do the mechs and argue in "Animal Spirits?"

8. Describe the people that Toby first encounters in "Rational Laughter."

9. What is the message that the injured man has for Toby in "Casualties?"

10. In "Eating the Storm," what does Toby realize about the violence down the Lane?

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