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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Orbits -1 through 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To which of the following is space compared?
(a) Pard.
(b) Panther.
(c) Pallas cat.
(d) Puma.
2. On what orbit does the station manage to see the least trace of life on earth?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.
3. How does the novel gloss the term Las Meninas?
(a) The ladies in waiting.
(b) The queens of court.
(c) The damsels in distress.
(d) The women of the world.
4. In what month is the novel set?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) December.
5. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, that even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene.”
(b) “Its light is an ensemble of a trillion things which rally and unify for a few short moments before falling back into the rin-tin-tin and jumbled tumbling of static galactic woodwind rainforest trance of a wild and lilting world.”
(c) “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
(d) “Like the wingbeat of an immeasurably small bird.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following do station crew members note wishing for?
2. Which of the following appears to the station?
3. On what day of the week had Chie reported her mother’s death to hew crewmates?
4. On what constellation does Anton fix his consideration?
5. Over what body of water does the station pass?
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