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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose voice does Dr. Afriel hear?
(a) Dr. Marny's.
(b) Dr. Mirnie's.
(c) Dr. Mirny's.
(d) Dr. Merny's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she hope when she has eaten her pets' undecayed flesh?

2. What won't come to Lindsay?

3. What can Lindsay not help but do after Gomez leaves?

4. What is the only native animal life in the orbiting Mechanist colonies?

5. What patent is Navarre attempting to push forward?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Wellspring dressed and why?

2. What does Dr. Mirny tell Dr. Afriel about the Swarm and what he can hope to gain from them?

3. Why do the Cicadas need to bathe but Lindsay does not?

4. Why is the Queen's departure the death knell for CK?

5. How does Nikolai come to find the central question of the universe? What is the central question?

6. Why is winter the season for pruning the sunken gardens?

7. Who had been the previous occupant of the ship and what had happened to it?

8. What had Pongpianskul attempted to do, and failed?

9. What does Dr. Afriel say about humanity?

10. What is unique about "Fuzzy"?

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