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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 which of the following does Chapter 13 begin?
(a) “‘I only got there right at the end,’ Adesh says, keeping his voice low, ‘but it sounded like you were whimpering.’”
(b) “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.”
(c) “A plague…from China?”
(d) “‘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.”

2. What name do the ground and control crews collectively give themselves?
(a) Space Nerds.
(b) Tet Rocket Jockeys.
(c) Eager Eagle Brigade.
(d) Mission Control.

3. With which of the following does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) “The service-and-delivery structure beside Eagle Heavy is a crisscross latticework of steel beams housing a huge open elevator.”
(b) “It’s a beautiful April day in Playalinda, Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral.”
(c) “Eight men and two women walk in a line along the right side of the Tet control center.”
(d) “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.”

4. Which of the following pilots the launch of the Eagle-19 Heavy?
(a) Glen.
(b) Jafari.
(c) Gareth.
(d) Lundgren.

5. By which company is Gwendy published?
(a) Ballantine.
(b) Viking.
(c) Del Rey.
(d) Ace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which crew member reminds Gwendy how to move in microgravity?

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

3. With which of the following does Chapter 7 begin?

4. What author does Gwendy note used the title City of Night previously?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Adesh granted a private cabin?

2. What basic assumption does Gwendy harbor about the wealthy, to which she thinks Gareth an exception?

3. Describe the box Gwendy carries.

4. What is Gwendy's official position on the space mission?

5. What news effectively ends Magowan's campaign?

6. What accounts for Gwendy's name?

7. What connection do the Brighams have to the launch?

8. Of what does Gwendy dream while dozing before her televised conference?

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

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

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