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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When exploring the first city, to simplify the task, only what percentage is to be examined?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-eigth.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-ninth.

2. Where is Commander Norton's crew while Rodrigo is disarming the bomb?
(a) Evacuating Rama.
(b) Watching Rodrigo on closed circuit TV.
(c) In the brig.
(d) Inside Rama.

3. What do the explorers discover inside the building in London?
(a) A catalog of sorts.
(b) Containers of water.
(c) Food.
(d) Mirrors.

4. What does the first images of Rama prove?
(a) Rama is not a natural object.
(b) The body of Rama is geometrically imperfect.
(c) Rama is too far away to see clearly.
(d) The color of Rama fluctuates from black to shades of gray to white.

5. Most asteroids tracked by Spaceguard are described as having this sort of orbit.
(a) Orbits dissimilar to Earth's orbit around the Sun.
(b) Orbits that lay beyond Mars.
(c) Orbits that posed a possible danger to Earth.
(d) Orbits that keep asteroids within the confines of the asteroid belt.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the Commander, Straight Valley reminds him of what part of his past?

2. How many smaller spikes surround the immense central spike?

3. What creatures start disassembling the broken monster in the Cylindrical Sea?

4. There is speculation that New York gets its raw materials from where?

5. What loss is so great that it was beyond all computation?

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