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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Louis calls Nessus to report Speaker's incident?
(a) Nessus turns around and heads to the ship.
(b) Nessus refuses to answer.
(c) Louis in unable to get a hold of Nessus.
(d) Nessus passes out.

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

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

4. Although she is ancient, how has Prill survived all this time on Ringworld?
(a) By going into stasis.
(b) Engineers can live forever.
(c) By taking a drug to keep her young.
(d) By eating a special fruit of Ringworld.

5. What does Louis find at the top of Fist-of-God?
(a) A meteor hole.
(b) An air launch.
(c) Lava.
(d) A worm hole.

6. What do the crew members realize the eye really is?
(a) A hologram.
(b) A storm.
(c) A meteor hole.
(d) A moon.

7. What is there a wire statue of in the castle?
(a) A large wolf like creature.
(b) The Ringworld.
(c) A queen.
(d) A bald man.

8. What does Louis do when Nessus does not want to go rescue Teela?
(a) Makes Nessus feel guilty until agrees to go.
(b) Tells him he does not have to come.
(c) Cries.
(d) Threatens to kill him.

9. What does Speaker fly off to investigate?
(a) A gold flicker on the land below.
(b) A dark ring of smoke in the distance.
(c) A shiny break in the clouds.
(d) A curious noise coming from the trees.

10. What has Louis named the police station?
(a) Po-po.
(b) Improbable.
(c) Chief.
(d) Shield.

11. What does Speaker tell Louis he needs in Chapter 20?
(a) Fresh meat.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Water.
(d) His medicine.

12. What does Louis use the disintegrator for in the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Attacking the sunflowers.
(b) Catching dinner.
(c) Fixing the broken flycycle.
(d) Digging a burrow.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to all the translators in Chapter 17?

2. What does the bald woman throw at Louis while he is in the force field?

3. What makes Louis think that Teela must be dead?

4. What else do Speaker and Louis see trapped in the force field?

5. Teela get separated from the group and finds herself where before they lose communication with her?

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