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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to those who enter the Skoptsy Colony?
(a) They voluntarily submit to a surgery that severs their sensory nervous system.
(b) They are trained to be Martian gardeners.
(c) They are taught telepathy.
(d) They are taught precognition.

2. What does Robin tell Foyle at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) How to be healed of his burns.
(b) How to save himself and return to his own time.
(c) How to use PyrE.
(d) How to reunite with Olivia.

3. What does Presteign explain that PyrE is?
(a) A pyrotechnic alloy.
(b) A Phoenix alloy.
(c) A pyrophoric alloy.
(d) A nuclear alloy.

4. Who are the Jack-jaunters?
(a) Those who, even after training, are unable to jaunte.
(b) Volunteers who teach jaunting to people who can't afford lessons.
(c) Hobos, tramps, and vagabonds who are looters.
(d) The most skilled of all jaunters.

5. Why does Fourmyle send small slugs of PyrE around the world?
(a) To use PyrE in the same fashion as an IED.
(b) So others could determine what PyrE was and what it could do.
(c) To plan for future destruction.
(d) To hide as much PyrE from Presteign as possible.

6. Where do the atomic bombs which strike in the proximity of the Presteign mansion come from?
(a) The moon.
(b) Newark.
(c) The Outer Satellites.
(d) Tycho.

7. Where does the Government House ball at the opening of Chapter 9 take place?
(a) Sydney.
(b) Noosa Heads.
(c) Queensland.
(d) Canberra.

8. What does Foyle use to control the reappearance of his tattoos?
(a) Self-hypnotism.
(b) Sedatives.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Cold baths.

9. How much does the Four Mile Circus cost?
(a) Forty thousand a week.
(b) Forty thousand a day.
(c) Four thousand a day.
(d) Forty thousand a year.

10. What job does Foyle ask Robin to take for him at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Recording Secretary.
(b) Interpreter.
(c) Bodyguard.
(d) Romance Secretary.

11. Who is Bohun?
(a) Fourmyle's chief of security.
(b) Fourmyle's accountant.
(c) Fourmyle's resident chemist.
(d) The head of the Four Mile Circus.

12. What is Mars St. Michele?
(a) A nuclear weapon depository.
(b) The seat of Martian government.
(c) A fortress of telepathy.
(d) A hospital.

13. What triggers the explosions of PyrE?
(a) Truth and Consequences.
(b) Will and Idea.
(c) Thought and Emotion.
(d) Intellect and Force.

14. What does Fourmyle do with the old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York?
(a) He uses it as a hangar for his vehicles.
(b) He uses it to house his circus.
(c) He sells it to Presteign.
(d) He uses it as a compound for people he has kidnapped.

15. What does a surgeon of the Mars Commando Brigade do to Foyle?
(a) Makes him more machine than man.
(b) Permanantly removes the last vestiges of his tattoos.
(c) Gives him the ability to never need sleep.
(d) Gives him the ability to jaunt between planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Geoffrey Fourmyle?

2. How is Olivia Presteign described in Chapter 11?

3. Who is Lindsey Joyce?

4. Who is Sigurd Magsman?

5. Who does Foyle tell Kempsey that he was sent by?

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