2. What unnerves the Cicadas?
(a) All of these.
(b) The walls and floor of flesh.
(c) The shops of stone intermixed with the mounds of flesh.
(d) The fact that the two alien elements are juxtaposed.

3. What isn't Mirasol meant to mention?
(a) The native Martians.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The people who were killed.

4. Why are those people killed?
(a) They had completely joined the ecosystem.
(b) They had figured out the Investors' stardrive.
(c) They had figured out how to manufacture gems.
(d) They had figured out how to remain immortal.

5. What does Afriel wish to convey to the symbiote?
(a) All of these.
(b) The humility under which he wishes to study the Swarm.
(c) The harmlessness of his endeavor.
(d) His best personal wishes.

6. What doesn't Landau fear any longer?
(a) Death.
(b) Public ridicule.
(c) The cold.
(d) Being alone.

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

8. Who remains after Lindsay pulls this stunt?
(a) Abelard Gomez.
(b) Ryumin.
(c) Navarre.
(d) Wellspring.

9. What do the people eradicate from Lindsay's memory?
(a) His ability to reverse his aging.
(b) His Shaper training.
(c) All of these.
(d) His ability to twist words.

10. How long does this new caste member live?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) None of these.

11. Who has made no attempt to contact the local primitives?
(a) The Mechanists.
(b) All of these.
(c) The Investors.
(d) The gasbags.

12. What has Alexandrina been feeding Lindsay?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Tyler apples.
(c) Mavrides apples.
(d) Both of these.

13. Why do Lindsay and Vera's hearts leap?
(a) There is actually an environment untouched by mankind.
(b) They have finally found what they are looking for.
(c) The geology of Earth is like Europa.
(d) There is a way for detente to be permanently plausible.

14. Who is the Regal Adviser?
(a) Arkaydia.
(b) Arcadia.
(c) Arkadya.
(d) Arkaydea.

15. How does Nikolai's wife die?
(a) Contact venom on the door knob of their home.
(b) She doesn't die.
(c) Her cybernetics gives out.
(d) Shot.