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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Yagharek's wings?
(a) They are too heavy to fly.
(b) They were removed.
(c) They are too small to support his weight.
(d) They are broken.

2. At which restaurant does Lin host her celebratory dinner?
(a) Daggers and Diamonds.
(b) Hen and Hennesey.
(c) Bread and Butter.
(d) Clock and Cocker.

3. Why was Benjamin Flex arrested?
(a) For damaging council property.
(b) For stealing from the city kitty.
(c) For supporting strikers.
(d) For overfishing.

4. What is interesting about the slake moth's tongue?
(a) It is made of metal.
(b) It is covered in feathers.
(c) It is forked, like a snake's.
(d) It does not have a tongue.

5. Which of the following activities is taking place outside of Isaac's window at the opening of the novel?
(a) There is a market.
(b) There is a circus.
(c) There is an eerie calm.
(d) There is a tornado.

6. Who was Derkhan concerned with when she visited the communicatrix?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Lin.
(c) Rudgutter.
(d) Benjamin.

7. What room number does David frequent while he's in the prostitution part of town?
(a) Room 17.
(b) Room 007.
(c) Room 37.
(d) Room 27.

8. Why does Lin accept Mr. Motley's proposal?
(a) Because she needs the money.
(b) Because she finds him interesting.
(c) Because she has nothing else to do.
(d) Because she wants to make Isaac jealous.

9. How does Lin communicate?
(a) Through humming and clicking.
(b) Through buzzing her wings.
(c) She does not communicate at all.
(d) Through sign language.

10. Where is Isaac going when he visits, "a moving stew of human and vodyanoi, cactus, khepri and other, rarer, breeds: hotchi and strider and stiltspear and races the names of which Isaac did not know"?
(a) The church.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The elementary school.
(d) The circus.

11. Where does Isaac go to research for Yagharek's project?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To the circus.
(c) To the zoo.
(d) To the library.

12. Which of the following types of insect is NOT hoarded for sale when the people of New Crobuzan find out that Isaac is working on new research?
(a) Ants.
(b) Grubs.
(c) Caterpillars.
(d) Butterflies.

13. What does Isaac fuss about most when he wakes up in the morning?
(a) Taking a bath.
(b) Changing his clothes.
(c) Going to work.
(d) Eating his breakfast.

14. Which type of energy is Isaac most interested in?
(a) Nuclear Energy.
(b) Thermal Energy.
(c) Kinetic Energy.
(d) Crisis Energy.

15. What does Lin use colorberries for?
(a) Painting.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Mating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where must Lin travel to purchase colorberries?

2. What is a communicatrix?

3. According to David, who did Isaac get the larvae from?

4. What is the name of the communicatrix Dekhan went to visit?

5. Which of the following couples is the slake moth's next victim?

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