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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As what is Afriel supposed to address the doctor when he has been brought to her?
(a) SmartSwarm.
(b) IntelliSwarm.
(c) Swarm.
(d) None of these.

3. What upgrade does this give him?
(a) A biofeedback monitor.
(b) A clock.
(c) All of these.
(d) A television screen.

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

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

6. For what is the Froth famous?
(a) Welcome spontaneity.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Delirium.
(d) Both of these.

7. What does Afriel apply to impress the Swarm?
(a) Hairspray.
(b) Soft fabrics.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Perfume.

8. What is it thought that Wellspring engineered?
(a) The death of the Comptroller.
(b) The crash of '41.
(c) The disappearance of Abelard Lindsay.
(d) All of these.

9. To whom is T-K crucial?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Financiers.

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

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

12. What would this creature have missed if it would have had to absorb Dr. Afriel?
(a) All of these.
(b) His vigor.
(c) His conversation.
(d) His youth.

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

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

15. What do the Terrans want?
(a) Stability.
(b) Justice.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't Landau fear any longer?

2. What is the cat's name?

3. What won't come to Lindsay?

4. What does she have that the Investors want?

5. What is Arkadya that Valery is not?

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