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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. With whom of the following does Norris confer in Derry?
(a) Ryan Brown.
(b) Brian Gardner.
(c) Gerry Keele.
(d) Gerry Mulligan.

2. With which of the following does Chapter 12 begin?
(a) “When Gwendy Peterson was a young girl, she and her best friend Olive Kepnes played a game called ‘Mermaids’ at the Castle Rock Community Pool.”
(b) “‘What—’ Gwendy began, meaning to finish with either are you doing here or is wrong with you, she didn’t know which, and Farris didn’t give her time.”
(c) “A plague…from China?”
(d) “When Gwendy turns around to stoke her way back from officer country to the crew’s launch area…, she almost bumps heads with Gareth Winston, who is floating just behind her.”

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

4. With which of the following does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) “At the top of the gantry there’s a large white room where the space travelers stand, arms raised and doing slow pirouettes, as a disinfecting spray that smells suspiciously like bleach wafts over them.”
(b) “Gwendy seats herself between Bankole and Patel.”
(c) “The service-and-delivery structure beside Eagle Heavy is a crisscross latticework of steel beams housing a huge open elevator.”
(d) “Eight men and two women walk in a line along the right side of the Tet control center.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does Gwendy compare the flight control system?

2. What is Gwendy's call sign on the mission?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 18 begin?

4. How much snow falls at Gwendy's home the night after Harris visits?

5. How old is Gwendy at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fate befell the most recent holder of the puzzle box before Gwendy?

2. What news effectively ends Magowan's campaign?

3. Where is the fire-damage to Gwendy's house concentrated?

4. What accounts for Gwendy's name?

5. Under what circumstances is the flight crew likely to encounter their Chinese counterparts?

6. Summarize Ryan Brown's Black Friday tradition.

7. Why is Adesh granted a private cabin?

8. How does Gwendy describe the weather facing the flight crew on liftoff?

9. What comments are made about the older members of the audience for the space launch?

10. Summarize Gwendy's reply to Magowan's first political attack against her.

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