2. What is Arkadya that Valery is not?
(a) All of these.
(b) Full of false gaiety.
(c) Covered with evidence of Mechanism.
(d) Blonde.

3. Who does Nikolai meet in ECLECTIC EPILEPTIC?
(a) Spider Rose.
(b) Abelard Gomez.
(c) Abelard Lindsay.
(d) Simon Afriel.

4. What no longer startles Spider Rose?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) The sound of footsteps.
(d) The sound of her own laughter.

5. What is the thing that the Investors hit upon that she actually likes?
(a) Pets.
(b) Technology.
(c) Home improvements.
(d) Cellular regeneration equipment.

6. Who is Landau's closest friend?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Lindsay.
(c) Wellspring.
(d) Both of these.

7. For whom is Lindsay waiting?
(a) Kitsune.
(b) Wellspring.
(c) His clone of Nora.
(d) Alexandrina.

8. What is the specialty of the Patternists?
(a) Cerebral asymmetry.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Construction of genetic patterns.

9. Who does Nikolai love as a child?
(a) His teddy bear.
(b) His father.
(c) His interactive cybernetic teacher.
(d) His mother.

10. What does Lindsay say about Mars?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Mars is too dry.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) He doesn't like Mars.

11. What are Nikolai's last words?
(a) Freedom is Futile.
(b) Ignorance is Bliss.
(c) There is bliss in ignorance.
(d) Futility is Freedom.

12. What does she hope when she has eaten her pets' undecayed flesh?
(a) All of these.
(b) That she will survive.
(c) That it has been poisoned and will kill her.
(d) That she will become the pet.

13. What is under the ibis feathers?
(a) Mechanisms designed to keep the body going.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Human muscle.
(d) Bird tissue.

14. What has killed the Queen?
(a) Lichens from the gem.
(b) Stabbing.
(c) Poison.
(d) Suicide.

15. What isn't an alteration to the Captain-Doctor's body?
(a) His appendix has been removed.
(b) The structure of his heart has been designed for greater productivity.
(c) His lungs have been enlarged.
(d) His hormonal balance has been altered for longer periods in free fall.