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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Camp Alpha?
(a) A temporary meeting place for the Rama Committee.
(b) A temporary camp on Rama.
(c) A permanent camp on Rama.
(d) The place on Rama thought to be perhaps a million years old.

2. What is a light curve?
(a) A slow variation in the brilliance of all asteroids.
(b) The extent to which an asteroid wanes over a period of hours.
(c) The extent to which an asteroid waxes over a period of hours.
(d) The degree to which an asteroid's orbit bends.

3. What is the first city to be visited by the Commander and the other explorers?
(a) Paris.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) London.
(d) New York.

4. What is unusual about object 31/439?
(a) It is traveling in an ellipse with clockwork precision that is retraced every few years.
(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 straight past the orbits of the inner planets and will impact the Sun.

5. Why were there many photographs taken of New York?
(a) To look at the images for missed patterns.
(b) To prove the team visited New York.
(c) To make a jigsaw puzzle.
(d) To use to construct an accurate scale model of the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the origin of the name of object 31/149?

2. Who is certified to navigate the Cylindrical Sea?

3. What is the object that is first cataloged as 31/439?

4. What is strange about the large crab-like creature that JImmy sees after he crashes?

5. In Chapter 17, what makes the sound that wakes the whole camp?

(see the answer key)

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