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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Landau find Wellspring?
(a) In Zaibatsu.
(b) None of these.
(c) In Dogtown.
(d) On Earth.

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

5. Who is always around to pick up the pieces?
(a) The Mechanists.
(b) Humanity.
(c) The Shapers.
(d) The Investors.

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

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

8. 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 appendix has been removed.
(c) His hormonal balance has been altered for longer periods in free fall.
(d) His lungs have been enlarged.

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

10. What does Lindsay do to break the rules?
(a) Defames the Investors.
(b) Talks loudly.
(c) Defecates in public.
(d) Strips nude.

11. Why doesn't Lindsay join them?
(a) He feels it should be the world of the young.
(b) He feels that Vera is going to kill him eventually.
(c) None of these.
(d) He feels that he should join Nora.

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

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

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

15. Who had killed Nikolai's wife?
(a) Captain-Doctor Abelard Gomez.
(b) Captain-Doctor Martin Leng.
(c) None of these.
(d) Captain-Doctor Abelard Mavrides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Regal Adviser?

2. What does Lindsay leave behind?

3. What is the first thing the immortal rat does following its release?

4. How fast are the surface winds?

5. For what does the Captain-Doctor say that he would have paid from the Investors?

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