View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Commander describe his impressions of Rama after reaching the plain?
(a) It is like being on a huge, darkened stage with a single spotlight.
(b) The plain is curved as far as the eye can see.
(c) There is always some background noise.
(d) Voices echo loudly, so it is necessary to speak in a whisper.

2. Why is it impossible for Hermians born and bred on Mercury to go to Earth?
(a) Because of the type of rain on Earth.
(b) Earth's gravity is twice as powerful than Mercury's.
(c) Because there is not enough solar energy on Earth.
(d) Earth's gravity is three time more powerful than Mercury's.

3. How many smaller spikes surround the immense central spike?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the expected effect of an matter-antimatter reaction?

2. Why were there many photographs taken of New York?

3. How many members of the United Planets are there?

4. On the ascent back to the Endeavour, who is the last to leave the plain on Rama?

5. What danger plays from the tip of Big Horn?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 314 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample