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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 causes Toby's muscles to lock up in the Lane?
(a) His malfunctioning servos.
(b) Sublimed vapor.
(c) Something in the Lane's food.
(d) Exhaustion.

2. In "Eating the Storm," what does Toby do after he feels a pulse of gravity up through his boots?
(a) He sits and waits for the Mantis.
(b) He turns his sensorium off.
(c) He uses a torch to open the esty.
(d) He fires his laser between his feet.

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

4. After Quath returns from her interrogation, what does she say Killeen wants from Toby?
(a) A promise that Toby will stay on ship.
(b) Toby's company.
(c) An apology.
(d) Shibo's Personality.

5. What does the stranger say to Toby at the start of "Casualties?"
(a) That Abraham is here.
(b) That a man wants to talk with him.
(c) That Killeen is looking for him.
(d) That he needs to leave before the mechs arrive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the injured man say to Toby in "Casualties?"

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

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

4. In "Animal Spirits," where do the mechs say must go?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Toby and Quath do at the end of "The Esty Wind?"

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

3. Why do Toby and the Shibo Personality argue in "The Rock of Chaos?"

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

5. Why is Toby surprised to sense the Mantis in "Hard Spark?"

6. In "Passing Currents," how does Toby describe the disturbance that flattened him?

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

8. What does Toby miss in "The Pain of Eternity?"

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

10. In "The Sea of Sands," how does Toby learn that the Mantis has found him?

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