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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. What has Dr. Afriel staked his career upon?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) That he can clone an antidote to symbiote bites.
(c) Both of these.
(d) That the pheromones in his leg will work.

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

3. Boys are named after whom in the Republic?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Paolo.
(c) Lindsay himself.
(d) Ryumin.

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

5. What is the first thing the immortal rat does following its release?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Jumps out and bites Lindsay.
(d) Cowers and shakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast are the surface winds?

2. What is the cat's name?

3. What do the Terrans want?

4. What is the specialty of the Patternists?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nikolai do in order to upset the Mechanist?

2. How has Spider Rose's pet helped her overcome issues?

3. What has Landau been waiting for, and why did he have to wait?

4. What is so special about the discreets?

5. What does Dr. Afriel say about humanity?

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

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

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

9. For what reason does the Mechanist woman propose marriage?

10. What interesting information does Lindsay find out about Wellspring?

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