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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the three girls who appear before Foyle in Chapter 2?
(a) Joan, Moria, and Polly.
(b) Jo, Madge, and Petunia.
(c) Judy, Martha, and Penelope.
(d) Janet, Mary, and Paula.

2. What is a memo-bead?
(a) A device worn around the neck for dictation.
(b) A necklace made from synthetic pearls.
(c) A memory-jogging device swallowed by the user.
(d) A device which records memos and is inserted in the user's ear.

3. How do Jiz and Foyle escape the ice cavern in the Gouffre Martel?
(a) By jumping into an underground river.
(b) By using a sledge hammer to chip through ice.
(c) By jaunting outside the caverns.
(d) By using plastic explosives.

4. What is the Whisper Line?
(a) An acoustical freak in the Gouffre Martel.
(b) A secret telegraph line connecting parts of the Gouffre Martel.
(c) An antique steam train.
(d) A conveyer belt in the Gouffre Martel.

5. What does L.E.S. mean?
(a) Leverage, Elevation, Situation.
(b) Location, Elevation, Simulation.
(c) Lesson, Elevation, Situation.
(d) Location, Elevation, Situation.

6. What is the Nightmare Theater supposed to do?
(a) Provide midnight horror movies.
(b) Present absurdist plays.
(c) Shock schizophrenics back into the objective world.
(d) Entertain the patients at the Combined Terran University hospital.

7. Why are Foyle and Jiz forced to escape Baker's Zoo?
(a) Because of a gas explosion.
(b) Because of an uprising of Baker's post-operative patients.
(c) Because of a raid.
(d) Because of a spaceship crash into the building.

8. Who is the spokesperson to Foyle for the inhabitants of the Sargasso Asteroid?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Erlenmeyer.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Jeremiah.

9. What is the name of the group which populates the Sargasso Asteroid?
(a) The Scientific People.
(b) The Squatter People.
(c) The Unchanging People.
(d) The Brilliant People.

10. What does Foyle tell Jiz to do with the Weekender as he searches the Nomad?
(a) Power down all non-essential systems.
(b) Abandon it.
(c) Fill it up with rocket fuel.
(d) Jettison everything except emergency rations.

11. How many habitable moons circle Jupiter?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

12. How many days does Jiz wait before removing Foyle's bandages?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Five days.

13. What did the accident at Tycho Sands do to Saul Dagenham?
(a) It turned him dangerously radioactive.
(b) It made him unable to jaunt.
(c) It made him blind.
(d) It made him a quadraplegic.

14. What does Foyle survive on while on board the Nomad?
(a) Frozen entrees.
(b) Canned food and a little water.
(c) Vitamins.
(d) Dried food and a little water.

15. What is a Blue Jaunte?
(a) A person with extraordinary jaunting ability.
(b) A jaunte into the dark which kills the jaunter.
(c) A measurement which identifies the distance a person jaunts.
(d) A nickname for the first jaunte a person attempts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many habitable worlds are cited in the Prologue?

2. What does Foyle look like when he looks at himself in the mirror in Chapter 2?

3. What does Presteign wish to be called by others?

4. Who is Foyle's first wife?

5. What is the address of the Presteign clan headquarters?

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