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

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

3. What is inside the synthetic gem?
(a) Lichen.
(b) Amber.
(c) Gold flecks.
(d) Moss.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What isn't an alteration to the Captain-Doctor's body?

2. What shows up at Landau's door?

3. With what are the dogs barraged?

4. What is lying atop the gems?

5. What is the name of the Investor pet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nikolai retire and commit suicide?

2. What does the book refer to in Chapter Nine regarding the strain on humanity?

3. How is the killing of the people originally justified?

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

5. What does the Presence reveal itself to be and what does it want with its existence?

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

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

8. Why is the name "Fuzzy" a private joke?

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

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

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