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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is used for a far nobler purpose at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) The weaponry skills acquired in the late twentieth century.
(b) The wealth of the countries that make up the European Union.
(c) The software designed to simulate "celestial target practice."
(d) The natural resources found in Europe.

2. What slides out of the wall of the pillbox-shaped structure?
(a) A claw.
(b) A tentacle.
(c) A wheel.
(d) Crossed bars.

3. Most asteroids tracked by Spaceguard are described as having this sort of orbit.
(a) Orbits that posed a possible danger to Earth.
(b) Orbits that keep asteroids within the confines of the asteroid belt.
(c) Orbits dissimilar to Earth's orbit around the Sun.
(d) Orbits that lay beyond Mars.

4. Where is Dr. Bose born?
(a) The Moon.
(b) In outer space.
(c) Mars.
(d) The Earth.

5. According to Chapter 6, how far is the distance between Earth and Mars?
(a) Five hours by shuttle.
(b) The same distance as the Sun is from the Earth.
(c) Three hundred million kilometers.
(d) One hundred million kilometers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what streams from the newly-opened pillbox "like dazzling diamonds as the brilliant sunlight caught them"?

2. How old is Dr. Bose?

3. SPACEGUARD is keeping track of how many asteroids at once?

4. Rama is compared to what ordinary object?

5. Who is the first Character introduced in Chapter 2?

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