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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. What is the "striking parallel" between Rama and terrestrial zoology, according to the Ambassador from Mars?
(a) A desert.
(b) A beehive.
(c) A termite colony.
(d) A coral reef.

2. According to the Ambassador from Mercury, what did everyone fail to consider about Rama?
(a) The possibility of nonbiological survival on Rama.
(b) That Rama can be mined for raw materials.
(c) That there is oxygen on Rama.
(d) That Rama is really a comet.

3. 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.

4. When on top of the levee at the far side of the city, what concerns Norton?
(a) The wall is apparently part of a prison.
(b) There is no apparent means of access to the southern hemisphere.
(c) The complexity of the levee.
(d) Signs of life started to appear suddenly.

5. What challenge occurs very soon after Jimmy is pulled into the Revolution?
(a) Fireworks dance around the horns.
(b) Jimmy swallows a lot of poisonous water.
(c) The flower falls in the water.
(d) An earthquake triggers a tidal wave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jimmy grab off of the back of the crab-like creature?

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

4. Where is Jimmy trying to land the Dragonfly in order to assure his survival?

5. Why were there many photographs taken of New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Norton order the Revolution to return to shore as quickly as possible after seeing the giant starfish?

2. What was different about the atmosphere after the ice thawed and the lights came on?

3. Explain the supposed similarities between a termite colony and Rama.

4. Why is it the case that some planets in the solar system are not represented in the United Planets?

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

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

7. Why is Chapter 17 entitled "Spring'?

8. Why is "Dragonfly" a good name for Jimmy Pak's sky-bike?

9. Describe the first creature that is encountered on Rama.

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

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