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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cairo is overrun with _____ when Nadia and her team arrive after visiting the crater.
(a) Lichen.
(b) Refugees.
(c) Moss.
(d) Fear.

2. In what kind of world does Arkady insist that money is not the primary goal?
(a) Literary.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Computer.
(d) Scientific.

3. Which tent workers strike, leading to negotiations by Frank and Phyllis?
(a) German.
(b) Russian.
(c) American.
(d) Indian.

4. Who is on his way to Cairo to meet Frank and Maya when his rover breaks down?
(a) Frank.
(b) Arkady.
(c) John.
(d) Sax.

5. What is the name of the town that contains the mohole?
(a) Acheron.
(b) Echus Overlook.
(c) Etsu Okakura.
(d) Senzeni Na.

6. What do Ann and Simon send when they are trapped inside a crater?
(a) A note.
(b) A distress signal.
(c) A phone call.
(d) A flag.

7. What is the crater where Nadia's team finds hundreds of dead bodies, reduced to ash?
(a) Carr.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Lost.
(d) Perider.

8. What is destroyed that causes Ann to panic, fearing for the life of her son?
(a) A business relay.
(b) A parachute.
(c) An elevator cable.
(d) A death star.

9. Who are at the bottom of a mohole in Part 5?
(a) John and Etsu.
(b) Sax and Maya.
(c) Frank and John.
(d) Ursula and Nadia.

10. Who encourages Frank to give a speech to the striking Russian workers?
(a) Sax.
(b) John.
(c) Maya.
(d) Ursula.

11. If aging treatments are given to everyone, what happens to the world?
(a) It becomes generic.
(b) It becomes overpopulated.
(c) It becomes fearsome.
(d) It becomes overgrown.

12. What is raging beside the rover that is run aground?
(a) Volcanoes.
(b) Maya.
(c) A flood.
(d) Tempers.

13. On the fourteenth day of the revolution, what asteroid is blown up?
(a) Acheron.
(b) Nemesis.
(c) Bradbury.
(d) Orange.

14. Who is beside herself/himself in grief at the death of a lover in the final chapter?
(a) Maya.
(b) Peter.
(c) Ann.
(d) Simon.

15. What has UNOMA approved that makes Sax believe security should be increased?
(a) A corporate haul.
(b) An ice bridge.
(c) A mohole.
(d) A space elevator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which investigators really work for transnationals?

2. Who are in the dining hall, watching the news as they hear of revolutions surrounding the new birth reduction acts on Earth?

3. Who suits up to clear the area after the rover is run aground?

4. Who is John's son?

5. Whose remains does Nadia find in the crater full of dead bodies?

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