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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. What does Isaac accidentally explode in his crisis engine?
(a) A block of cheese.
(b) A dozen eggs.
(c) An apple.
(d) A goat's leg.

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

3. What neighborhood did Lin grow up in?
(a) Crozuban.
(b) Khepri.
(c) Creekside.
(d) Kinken.

4. How does Vermishank die?
(a) He is hit by a car.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is eaten by a slake moth.
(d) He is stabbed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Motley have multiples of?

2. What devastating event happened in the year 1545?

3. How does the slake moth kill Dr. Barbile?

4. What does Isaac do for a living?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mr. Motley?

2. How do the people of New Crobuzon react when they hear that Isaac is studying flying creatures?

3. Why are Lublamaie and David irritated with Isaac at the laboratory?

4. What immediate studying does Isaac do to prepare for his work with Yagharke?

5. What strange trade does Mayor Rudgutter make with the Weaver in exchange for his services?

6. Why does David find himself in Room 17 of Spit Hearth?

7. Why is Vermishank killed?

8. What does Vodyanoi sculpt?

9. What does Derkhan Blueday find out about Benjamin Flex through the help of an outside source?

10. Who is Yagharek, and what does he want from Isaac?

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