1. The reference to the five giants is referring to what group of five?
(a) Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Eunomia, and Vesta.
(b) The five giant asteroids that orbit the Sun.
(c) The five biggest moons of Jupiter.
(d) The five most famous astronomers in history: Brahe, Galilei, Kepler, Copernicus, and Ptolemy.

2. According to Chapter 1, what happens after the initial shock wore off in 2077?
(a) The people of Earth became united and determined.
(b) Skills long forgotten were revived and taught in colleges and universities.
(c) The wealth of the world was squandered as many countries attempted to destroy weapons launched at their citizens.
(d) A great war broke out that caused losses of more than a trillion dollars.

3. What do the Rama Committee members want to find evidence, or lack thereof, on Rama?
(a) Natural resources.
(b) Propulsion.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Life.

4. When on top of the levee at the far side of the city, what concerns Norton?
(a) Signs of life started to appear suddenly.
(b) There is no apparent means of access to the southern hemisphere.
(c) The wall is apparently part of a prison.
(d) The complexity of the levee.

5. What is unusual about object 31/439?
(a) It is traveling straight past the orbits of the inner planets and will impact the Sun.
(b) It has a diameter of forty kilometers and is traveling in an atypical asteroidal path.
(c) It is given a name of a mythological creature.
(d) It is traveling in an ellipse with clockwork precision that is retraced every few years.