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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 constructed from six empty storage drums held together by a light metal framework?
(a) The Resolution.
(b) A raft.
(c) A pontoon boat.
(d) The Cook.

2. How long is the radio time lag between the Endeavour and Earth?
(a) Ten hours, and increasing.
(b) Ten minutes, and decreasing.
(c) Ten hours, and decreasing.
(d) Ten minutes, and increasing.

3. When the pillbox-shaped structure starts to move, it looks like what object?
(a) A dumbell.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A clamshell.
(d) A hat box.

4. How many wives does Commander Norton have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) One.

5. For the object 31/149, what do the numbers represent?
(a) The angular parameters of an object's elliptical orbit.
(b) The brightness of an object based on the magnitude scale.
(c) The year and order of its discovery.
(d) The year and order of its discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 35, how many times in the past has the Commander received a Triple-A priority message?

2. What does Jimmy do immediately before he jumps off of the 500-meter cliff to be rescued?

3. How does one astronomer refer to asteroids?

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

5. In Chapter 5, what streams from the newly-opened pillbox "like dazzling diamonds as the brilliant sunlight caught them"?

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