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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a bandersnatch?
(a) A man-eating plant.
(b) A fierce water beast.
(c) Another crashed ship in Ringworld.
(d) A witch doctor.

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

3. Why is Teela crying under a waterfall in Chapter 14?
(a) She is mad at Louis.
(b) She hates Nessus.
(c) She is overwhelmed with Ringworld.
(d) She wants to go home.

4. Why does Louis pretend to sell Teela to Seeker?
(a) Seeker thinks Louis is a king.
(b) Louis wants Seeker to know he loved Teela.
(c) Teela has asked Louis do pretend.
(d) Seeker thinks Teela belongs to Louis.

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 17, what does Nessus believe about the original inhabitants of the Ringworld?
(a) They could speak any language.
(b) They can live on any planet.
(c) They are not true humans.
(d) They could transmute matter.

9. In Chapter 18, what does Louis realize Teela uses to get attention?
(a) Laughing fits.
(b) Her good looks.
(c) Silence.
(d) Reckless behavior.

10. 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 left for the next planet.
(c) They died from bacterial epidemic.
(d) They were overthrown by the poor.

11. What type of trait does Louis realize the puppeteers have tried to breed in the humans?
(a) Luck.
(b) Height.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Speed.

12. How was the Fist-of-God created?
(a) Over time by atmospheric shifts.
(b) By the Engineers.
(c) By a meteor hitting the ring.
(d) By an earthquake.

13. What happens when Speaker attempts to cut the wire?
(a) The wires attack him.
(b) He cuts himself.
(c) The natives attack.
(d) It cannot be cut.

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

15. What was Prill using the force field for?
(a) To catch food.
(b) To attack the local natives.
(c) To catch Engineers flying by.
(d) To keep out dangerous animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of structure is in the force field?

2. What does the priest call the floating castle?

3. What had caused the collapse of the Ringworld society?

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

5. Who is the great leader who was overthrown before the city fell?

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