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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 25, under what conditions does Dragonfly handle the best?
(a) Higher altitudes.
(b) No wind.
(c) Lower altitudes.
(d) Cold temperatures.

2. Why were there many photographs taken of New York?
(a) To make a jigsaw puzzle.
(b) To look at the images for missed patterns.
(c) To use to construct an accurate scale model of the city.
(d) To prove the team visited New York.

3. If the Hermian bomb is detonated, what creates the biggest problem for the survival of the Endeavour?
(a) The fragments of Rama.
(b) The gamma-ray flash.
(c) Space wind.
(d) Radiation.

4. What do the Rama Committee members want to find evidence, or lack thereof, on Rama?
(a) Natural resources.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Life.
(d) Propulsion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 37, Mercury sends a missile to Rama, which stops fifty kilometers from Rama to do what?

2. What do the scavenger biots break down overnight, much to the dismay of Ruby Barnes?

3. Why had Commander Norton once fallen in love with a Hermian woman, but did not marry her?

4. What danger plays from the tip of Big Horn?

5. Mercer suggests that New York is intended to make what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jimmy Pak able to remain calm as he struggles to land the sky-bike?

2. Describe the flower that Jimmy Pak finds on Rama.

3. Why did Jimmy Pak approach the crab-like creature?

4. Why does the exobiologist, Dr. Perera, feel mortified at the beginning of Chapter 19?

5. Why are Hermians compared to Spartans?

6. Commander Norton speculates about the origin of the lights on Rama. What are some of his theories?

7. Why is Chapter 27 entitled, "Electric Wind"?

8. What are some of the ways the Commander considered to travel to the South Pole?

9. Explain the differences Jimmy Pak observed in the southern and northern ends of Rama.

10. Why does Jerry Kirchoff make facetious comments to Norton and Rousseau in Chapters 36 and 37?

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