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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 11, with whom does the Commander have a brief romantic encounter?
(a) The Ambassador.
(b) The Archeologist.
(c) The Exobiolotist.
(d) The Surgeon Commander.

3. What possibility causes Dr. Petera to suggest that Rama be evacuated early?
(a) Excessive heat.
(b) The detrimental effect of total darkness on humans.
(c) Hurricanes.
(d) The discovery of a new asteroid.

4. How expensive is time on a big orbiting telescope?
(a) Ten thousand dollars per quarter hour.
(b) Ten thousand dollars an hour.
(c) A thousand dollars an hour.
(d) A thousand dollars a minute.

5. The reference to the five giants is referring to what group of five?
(a) The five biggest moons of Jupiter.
(b) Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Eunomia, and Vesta.
(c) The five giant asteroids that orbit the Sun.
(d) The five most famous astronomers in history: Brahe, Galilei, Kepler, Copernicus, and Ptolemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Calypso, Beagle, and Challenger waiting for?

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

3. Which "city" on Rama is assumed to be more like an enormous factory or chemical processing plant?

4. Why is Baked Alaska mentioned in Chapter 14?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Joe Calvert do to entertain himself and the rest of the explorers?

(see the answer key)

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