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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. How does Louis plan to move the Liar to where they can launch into space?
(a) By having the natives move it.
(b) By towing it with the cycles.
(c) By pushing it.
(d) By using the tasp.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What has Teela gotten the stairs in the castle to do?
(a) Turn into a slide.
(b) Move.
(c) Change color.
(d) Grow and shrink.

Short Answer Questions

1. While searching for Teela, what happens to Speaker and Louis' bikes?

2. Why did the crew of Prill's ship kill the captain on their final return to Ringworld?

3. Why does Speaker promise to keep the puppeteers manipulation of the kzin a secret?

4. What does Louis use the disintegrator for in the beginning of Chapter 15?

5. What lies between the Liar and the rim of the ring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the crew learn about the Engineer woman in Chapter 21?

2. What does the crew find inside the floating castle?

3. What plan does Louis start creating in Chapter 21 and why?

4. What theories to Louis and Nessus have about the original Engineers of Ringworld?

5. What plan does Louis present to Speaker in the starter of Chapter 14?

6. Please describe Seeker.

7. What conclusion about Teela's luck does the crew come to in Chapter 18?

8. What does the crew do after Speaker is hit and until darkness falls in Chapter 15?

9. How does Louis respond when thousands of natives come to the flying castle in Chapter 16 and what does he learn?

10. What does the crew think of the woman that they see in the prison?

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