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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Bose long for?
(a) Familiar faces and ordinary days.
(b) More immigration.
(c) New faces and unexpected behavior.
(d) The unexpected.

2. What location has one-third as much gravity as Earth?
(a) Endeavour.
(b) Rama.
(c) The moon.
(d) Mars.

3. How big is the mass of Rama?
(a) At least a million tons.
(b) At least a billion tons.
(c) At least ten trillion tons.
(d) At least a trillion tons.

4. What is constructed from six empty storage drums held together by a light metal framework?
(a) A raft.
(b) The Resolution.
(c) The Cook.
(d) A pontoon boat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does the author use to portray the vast majority of asteroids?

2. How old is Dr. Bose?

3. How does the Commander describe his impressions of Rama after reaching the plain?

4. In Chapter 10, how do the explorers descend the ladder?

5. Who are the first three explorers on Rama?

(see the answer key)

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