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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nikolai's wife understand his emotions better than anyone else?
(a) Infrared scanners that pick up on the blood flow in his face.
(b) She is an empathetic woman.
(c) She has cameras on him at all times.
(d) She has actually gotten to know him and his emotions.

2. What is the name of the Investor pet?
(a) It is untranslatable.
(b) Puff.
(c) "Little Nose for Profits."
(d) "Profits."

3. What is the new caste's specialty?
(a) All of these.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Cloning.

4. What does Nikolai eventually own?
(a) Karotid Kluster.
(b) Czarina Kluster.
(c) Kyotid Zaibatsu .
(d) Kiotyd Kluster.

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

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

7. What can Lindsay not help but do after Gomez leaves?
(a) Cry.
(b) Sing.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Giggle.

8. How big is Mirasol's new land?
(a) Thirty square kilometers.
(b) Twenty square miles.
(c) Twenty square kilometers.
(d) Thirty square miles.

9. What does Nikolai begin to resent?
(a) None of these.
(b) His children.
(c) His age.
(d) His wife.

10. What shrinks to the arena far below?
(a) The world's sadness.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) The world's sins.
(d) Both of these.

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

12. What is Pongpianskul trying to do?
(a) Take everything off of computers and put it into books.
(b) Recreate Nora for Lindsay.
(c) Record all the information they are learning into the computer.
(d) Crossbreed a new kind of apple.

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

14. What isn't offered to Rose for her prize?
(a) A quarter of a million gigawatts.
(b) Stabilized plasma lattice for storage.
(c) Weaponry.
(d) Immortality.

15. What is the prize for the war of the Sunken Gardens?
(a) Freedom.
(b) The Ladder.
(c) A chance to play God.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many eyes does Rose have?

2. Who is always around to pick up the pieces?

3. How does Nikolai's wife die?

4. What is lying atop the gems?

5. What does the symbiote do?

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