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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Chapters 1 through 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does Chapter 7 begin?
(a) “This is the third time the button box has come into Gwendy Peterson’s life.”
(b) “Outside the porthole nearest to Gwendy, the sky is now dark.”
(c) “After Pete Riley’s visit, Gwendy began to read up on Paul Magowan, the Republican junior senator from Maine.”
(d) “But not as big as this one, Gwendy thinks as the roar of the engines increases to a bellow.”

2. To which of the following does Gwendy compare Gareth?
(a) Daddy Warbucks.
(b) Ronald McDonald.
(c) Pillsbury Doughboy.
(d) Lefty.

3. With which of the following does Chapter 11 begin?
(a) “The service-and-delivery structure beside Eagle Heavy is a crisscross latticework of steel beams housing a huge open elevator.”
(b) “Of course the opposition was laying for her.”
(c) “Eight men and two women walk in a line along the right side of the Tet control center.”
(d) “It’s a beautiful April day in Playalinda, Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral.”

4. Who is the mission control director?
(a) Peterson.
(b) Smith.
(c) Lundgren.
(d) Braddock.

5. To which of the following does Gwendy compare herself?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Catherine of Valois.
(c) Anne of Burgundy.
(d) Philippa of Hainault.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "wonder" does Gwendy note the rivers yielded in the mid 20th century?

2. From which country does Jafari come?

3. Which of the following does Gwendy reference to Gareth?

4. In which of the following spokes will Gwendy's crew lodge?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 2 begin?

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