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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 location is home to more than a million people who had their hearing permanently damaged in 2077?
(a) Russia.
(b) Padua.
(c) Austria.
(d) Verona.

2. SPACEGUARD is keeping track of how many asteroids at once?
(a) Half a million.
(b) Two hundred fifty thousand.
(c) One hundred thousand.
(d) Fifty thousand.

3. What is unusual about object 31/439?
(a) It has a diameter of forty kilometers and is traveling in an atypical asteroidal path.
(b) It is traveling in an ellipse with clockwork precision that is retraced every few years.
(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.

4. What surprises Commander Norton as he approached Rama for the rendezvous?
(a) Rama's overwhelming size.
(b) The realization that Rama's mass is smaller than predicted.
(c) That Jupiter VIII is slightly larger than Rama.
(d) That landing on the Moon or Mars is easier than landing on Rama.

5. How old is Dr. Bose?
(a) Seventy-nine years old.
(b) Sixty-three years old.
(c) Eighty-nine years old.
(d) One hundred fifteen years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Bose long for?

2. After how many years does PROJECT SPACEGUARD justify its existence?

3. The reference to the five giants is referring to what group of five?

4. Who does the Commander depend on to land the Endeavour?

5. How does one astronomer refer to asteroids?

(see the answer key)

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