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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Captain Peter Y'ang-Yeovil?
(a) A member of Homeland Security.
(b) A member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(c) A member of Scotland Yard.
(d) A member of Central Intelligence.

3. How many habitable worlds are cited in the Prologue?
(a) Five planets, six satellites.
(b) Three planets, eight satellites.
(c) Eight planets, three satellites.
(d) Six planets, five satellites.

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

5. What critical bit of information does Foyle withhold from Jiz while they were still at Gouffre Martel?
(a) That he is secretly in league with Degenham.
(b) That there is a fortune on board the Nomad.
(c) That he is dying of cancer.
(d) That he is married.

6. According to Dagenham, what is the salvage on board the Nomad that is so valuable?
(a) Platinum bullion.
(b) Silver bullion.
(c) Gold bullion.
(d) Titanium bullion.

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

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

9. What is the name of the time period when the story takes place?
(a) The Odd Century.
(b) The Final Century.
(c) The Blessed Century.
(d) The Freak Century.

10. Why is Jisbella McQueen imprisoned?
(a) For speaking out against the state.
(b) For larceny.
(c) For kidnapping.
(d) For murder.

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

12. What is the current function of the abandoned railway roundhouse in Chapter 6?
(a) Baker's Hospital.
(b) Baker's Organic Greenhouse.
(c) Baker's Psychiatric Clinic.
(d) Baker's Freak Factory.

13. Who opens the first school for "jaunting"?
(a) Jaunte himself.
(b) One of Jaunte's children.
(c) Jaunte's widow.
(d) One of Jaunte's assistants.

14. Where is the Saturn Weekender stored?
(a) Montana.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Montauk.
(d) Vienna.

15. Where does Harley Baker, M.D. make his real income?
(a) His donut factory.
(b) His organic farm.
(c) His Freak Factory.
(d) His organ transplant sales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is PyrE, according to Chapter 4?

2. How do Jiz and Foyle discover they have left the caverns and the Gouffre Martel?

3. Who is Robin Wednesbury?

4. What is the phrase repeated many times by the woman's chorus of the Sargasso Asteroid?

5. Who is Foyle's first wife?

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