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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Teela defend the puppeteers actions towards the kzin?
(a) Because it has kept humans from becoming kzin slaves.
(b) Because she feels bad for Nessus.
(c) Because she she likes to argue.
(d) Because she is anit-kzin.

2. Why does Nessus flee the group in Chapter 13?
(a) To avoid retribution from Speaker.
(b) Because he does not agree with their route.
(c) To get away from Teela.
(d) Because he wants to return to the ship.

3. What does Louis think about the Ringworld natives forgetting their past and that they live on a ring?
(a) It is funny.
(b) It is upsetting.
(c) That they need help.
(d) That they are stupid.

4. What is Louis's theory about what happened to the city's original builders?
(a) The atmosphere changed and they had to leave.
(b) They died from bacterial epidemic.
(c) They left for the next planet.
(d) They were overthrown by the poor.

5. What does Nessus bring to his fellow crew members when he returns to them?
(a) The head of the woman.
(b) Wine.
(c) Meat.
(d) Maps.

6. What role does Louis seem to play in the group thus far in the story?
(a) Mediator.
(b) Leader.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Scientist.

7. What does Louis make Speaker promise before they set off into space?
(a) Not to eat anyone.
(b) To go into stasis for the trip back.
(c) Not to steal the Long Shot.
(d) To be nice to Prill.

8. What does Speaker find in the castle?
(a) A history of Ringworld.
(b) The king.
(c) A map room.
(d) A feast.

9. What is Kdapt?
(a) The former King of Ringworld.
(b) A legendary man from the sky.
(c) A kzin religion.
(d) The idea of spiritual enlightenment.

10. Why does Prill try to seduce Louis?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) To get to the tasp.
(c) Because she is crazy.
(d) So that they will take her with them.

11. What does Speaker want to do when he sees the floating eye in the sky?
(a) Shoot it with the disintegrator.
(b) Fly through it.
(c) Hide.
(d) Return to the castle.

12. What role did Halrloprillalar Hotrufan have on her ship?
(a) She was a communication officer.
(b) She was a doctor.
(c) She was an architect.
(d) She was a prostitute.

13. What happens to Prill without the tasp?
(a) She is happy and free.
(b) She goes through withdraw.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She gets very hungry.

14. What does Louis use the wire for in Chapter 24?
(a) To pull the liar to the top of the mountain.
(b) To fix the Liar.
(c) To kill Nessus.
(d) To catapult the Improbable into space.

15. What is the burst of burning light that hits and wounds Speaker?
(a) A beam from the sun.
(b) A weapon from the natives below.
(c) A slaver sunflower.
(d) A ray from a ship above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that can save the crew from these burning lights?

2. What is a bandersnatch?

3. What does Speaker tell Louis he needs in Chapter 20?

4. What does Louis notice on the Ringworld ground as they fly?

5. What does Louis what Speaker to pretend to be to trick the natives?

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