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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what makes the sound that wakes the whole camp?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) Driving rain drumming on the metal structures.
(c) Ice sheets breaking up.
(d) Storm-force winds.

2. Twice a day the explorers must perform an action. What is it?
(a) Exercise at three-quarters of a gee for ten minutes.
(b) Chew a high calorie snack.
(c) Maintain radio silence while transmissions are relayed to Earth.
(d) Take a nap.

3. In Chapter 11, what is identified as a psychological problem that may arise for the explorers?
(a) Darkness.
(b) The cold.
(c) The fluctuation of gravitational force.
(d) The path of Rama, which is very close to the Sun.

4. In Chapter 5, what streams from the newly-opened pillbox "like dazzling diamonds as the brilliant sunlight caught them"?
(a) Anti-matter particles.
(b) Dust particles.
(c) Oxygen molecules.
(d) Water vapor droplets.

5. What catches Jimmy's eye amongst the trellis of wires and rods?
(a) A snake.
(b) A butterfly.
(c) A sheath of feathers.
(d) A speck of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks the Commander to send a priority message to the earth?

2. What happens at the sixth small spike?

3. What happens to Jimmy's sky-bike?

4. What location has one-third as much gravity as Earth?

5. If the Hermian bomb is detonated, what creates the biggest problem for the survival of the Endeavour?

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