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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. To what school does Rafi’s father threaten to send him?
(a) Old Dominion.
(b) West Point.
(c) Virginia Military Institute.
(d) Greystone Preparatory Academy.

2. What kills Evie’s mother?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Burst aneurysm.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Aortic dissection.

3. To which church does the Queen feel aligned?
(a) Mormon.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Presbyterian.

4. Whose investment offer does Todd accept?
(a) Weyland-Yutani.
(b) Berkshire Hathaway.
(c) Seedbed Partners.
(d) Honte Group.

5. How does the novel gloss the phrase “e fenua manuïa”?
(a) This precious land.
(b) This fertile land.
(c) This lucky land.
(d) This lucky gal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Profunda on Makatea before the referendum?

2. What is the name of Evie’s pilot?

3. To what *artist’s* work does Evie compare the visuals of her war-operation dive?

4. What is the name of Rafi’s mother’s supervisor?

5. Into the wreckage of which war operation does Evie dive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rafi take a college course in European Literary Modernism while still in high school?

2. How does the novel describe the defeat by Deep Blue of Kasparov?

3. What privileges does the Queen associate with her title?

4. What had been Didier’s goal in office?

5. What dangers confront Evie as she dives for her war-operation assignment?

6. What had Todd’s father said about a person’s worth and character?

7. What is the initial reaction to the investors offering a trial artificial intelligence to Makatea?

8. What does Todd note about eggplant?

9. What are the chief objections to developing Makatea?

10. What do journalists pointedly not report about Evie’s Tektite II mission?

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