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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Orbits 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “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.”
(b) “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
(c) “Like the wingbeat of an immeasurably small bird.”
(d) “Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, that even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene.”

2. How many seconds less than someone on earth does a member of the station crew age in six months?
(a) 0.007.
(b) 7.
(c) 0.7.
(d) 0.07.

3. In what year did Collins take his photograph?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1968.

4. On what day of the week does the novel begin?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

5. How many orbits of the earth is the moon mission set to make?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How wide is the spectrometer’s survey area?

2. To what time are the station’s clocks set?

3. Which of the following is noted in the novel as a way to say “hello”?

4. Where does Roman live?

5. How many continents does the novel note the station can expect to see in a day?

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