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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 does Jimmy do while circling New York?
(a) Rest.
(b) Record video.
(c) Look for signs of life.
(d) Try to understand the complexity of the panorama.

2. When did the inhabitants of Europe see a dazzling fireball appear in the eastern sky?
(a) September 11.
(b) August 6.
(c) April 19.
(d) February 12.

3. What is the object that is first cataloged as 31/439?
(a) The mysterious object that became known as Rama.
(b) A chunk of space junk that is tracked by the super computers until it crashes into Mars.
(c) One of Saturn's rings.
(d) One of Jupiter's moons.

4. Which "city" on Rama is assumed to be more like an enormous factory or chemical processing plant?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Peking.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

5. When the explorers cross the Cylindrical Sea, where do they go first?
(a) New York.
(b) Moscow.
(c) The North Pole.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jimmy's sky-bike?

2. Hub Control diagnoses the problem at the sixth small spike as resulting from what?

3. What is a light curve?

4. What is Sita?

5. When exploring the first city, to simplify the task, only what percentage is to be examined?

(see the answer key)

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