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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens if Nessus has to use the tasp on Speaker too many times?
(a) Speaker will stop responding to it.
(b) Speaker will die.
(c) Speaker will shrink.
(d) Speaker will become enslaved to it.

2. Why does Louis jump from city-to-city and time zone-to-time zone in Chapter 1?
(a) To stretch out this birthday day.
(b) He is visiting his top ten favorite cities.
(c) There is no reason, he just wants to have fun.
(d) Because he wants to visit all continents in one day.

3. How long does it take the crew to travel from the puppeteer planet to Ringworld?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) A year.
(d) 5 years.

4. What is Nessus's response when he learns Teela has agreed to come on the mission?
(a) He does a happy jig.
(b) He is overjoyed.
(c) He nods and walks away.
(d) He howls with terror.

5. Who declares themselves in command as they leave the ship on their flycycles?
(a) Teela.
(b) Nessus.
(c) Speaker.
(d) Louis.

6. Why does Nessus have to use a tasp on Speaker?
(a) Because Speaker tries to steal the ship.
(b) To make Speaker be quiet.
(c) To ease Speaker's air sickness.
(d) Because Speaker needs help falling asleep.

7. How many wars were the humans able to defeat the kzin in?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

8. How does Nessus feel in Chapter 2 after his unsuccessful search for another crew member?
(a) That three is good enough.
(b) Angry.
(c) Calm and collected.
(d) Fearful.

9. At the end of Chapter 3, what does Louis say the mission is?
(a) Easier than a teleport to Beruit.
(b) Mankind's only hope.
(c) A suicide mission.
(d) The greatest adventure ever.

10. How long will their flycycle trip to the port take the crew?
(a) A few hours.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) A day.

11. What is wrong with Teela in Chapter 11 as the crew is flying across Ringworld?
(a) She is in a Plateau trance.
(b) She is motion sick from the travelling.
(c) She is sleep deprived.
(d) She cannot adapt to the air on Ringworld.

12. Why does the crew decide not to land at their first landing place?
(a) They realize it is a swamp.
(b) They see native people there.
(c) They see there is not enough space to land.
(d) They are close enough to the port to make it.

13. What does Nessus use to kill one of the native attackers in the city?
(a) His claws.
(b) A light saber.
(c) The disintegrator.
(d) His hind foot.

14. Why is Nessus surprised when he meets Teela at Louis's party?
(a) Because he has been looking for her.
(b) Because she is a puppeteer.
(c) Because she reminds him of someone.
(d) Because he has never seen anyone so beautiful.

15. Why does Teela question Louis about the mission?
(a) She is interested in Louis.
(b) She does not trust Nessus but trusts Louis.
(c) She wants to know more about where they are going.
(d) She wants to get secrets about the ship they are taking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nessus try to recruit Louis for a mission?

2. What are the cat-like aliens Louis and Nessus see in the they travel to?

3. What does the puppeteer planet look like when the crew lands on it?

4. What does Nessus say has kept him from finding a fourth crewmember?

5. What is the setting as the crew is finished packing for their journey to get help?

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