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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trade does Y'ang-Yeovil offer to Presteign?
(a) The inventor of PyrE for Gully Foyle.
(b) The Nomad for Gully Foyle.
(c) 100 thousand galactic credits for Gully Foyle.
(d) The inventor of jaunte for Gully Foyle.

2. Where is Baker's zoo?
(a) Teaneck.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Trenton.
(d) Jersey City.

3. Where does Foyle take his "borrowed" spaceship in Chapter 7?
(a) Titan.
(b) Rhea.
(c) The Sargasso Asteroid.
(d) Phoebe.

4. What language does Foyle speak?
(a) The mother tongue.
(b) The gutter tongue.
(c) The forked tongue.
(d) The unknown tongue.

5. What procedure does Baker use on Foyle after Jiz hands Foyle over to Baker?
(a) He erases his memory.
(b) He removes his tattoos.
(c) He replaces his teeth.
(d) He restores his memory.

6. What sort of craft does Foyle use to leave the Sargasso Asteroid?
(a) A research vessel.
(b) A garbage scow.
(c) A battle cruiser.
(d) A private yatch.

7. What reward does Dagenham offer Foyle for information about the Nomad?
(a) Property on Mars.
(b) Twenty thousand credits.
(c) Two hundred thousand credits.
(d) His own private spacecraft.

8. Who picks up Foyle ninety thousand miles outside of Mars's orbit?
(a) The Planetary Consortium navy.
(b) The Outer Planets navy.
(c) The United Federations of Planets navy.
(d) The Inner Planets navy.

9. When does Jaunte make his discovery?
(a) In the middle of the 23rd century.
(b) At the turn of the 24th century.
(c) At the turn of the 23rd century.
(d) At the end of the 24th century.

10. Who is Robin Wednesbury?
(a) A pilot.
(b) A musician.
(c) The teacher of the re-education class on jaunting.
(d) An artist.

11. What is the name of the medieval ruin to which Foyle and Jiz jaunt?
(a) Steward's folly.
(b) Sam's folly.
(c) Fisher's folly.
(d) Presteign's folly.

12. What is the name of the head of psychiatry at the Combined Terran University hospital?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Fritz.
(c) Saul.
(d) Hugo.

13. What animal does Jiz (and other characters) continually refer to Foyle as?
(a) Jaguar.
(b) Lion.
(c) Leopard.
(d) Tiger.

14. How much does Jiz pay Baker for Gully's tattoo removal?
(a) One thousand credits.
(b) Ten thousand credits.
(c) Four thousand credits.
(d) Five thousand credits.

15. Why doesn't the craft Foyle use to leave the Sargasso Asteroid work at first?
(a) There isn't enough rocket fuel.
(b) It is cemented into the asteroid.
(c) The engines misfire.
(d) The controls are damaged.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Captain Peter Y'ang-Yeovil?

3. Who provided the report to the Royal Society on jaunting?

4. How many habitable moons circle Jupiter?

5. Who is the spokesperson to Foyle for the inhabitants of the Sargasso Asteroid?

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