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

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

3. Where is Foyle taken after he tries to get away from the Sargasso Asteroid?
(a) To Mars.
(b) Back to Terra.
(c) To the moon.
(d) To Venus.

4. What does Foyle use to fire the combustion chamber of the jet?
(a) Matches.
(b) A piece of pure sodium metal.
(c) A red-hot filament.
(d) A piece of flint.

5. Who is Geoffrey Fourmyle?
(a) Another name for Gully Foyle.
(b) A doctor at the Combined Terran University Hospital.
(c) Head of the Inner Planet consortium.
(d) The assistant to Presteign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gully do to Jiz at the end of Chapter Seven?

2. Where does Foyle take his "borrowed" spaceship in Chapter 7?

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

4. Why are Foyle and Jiz forced to escape Baker's Zoo?

5. How much air can Foyle's spacesuit hold while trapped on the Nomad?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Gully Foyle considered the stereotypical common man?

2. What motivates Foyle to save himself at the close of Chapter 1?

3. Why does Foyle go to the Vancouver Presteign shipyards?

4. Describe Foyle's existence as he is trapped on board the Nomad.

5. What is significant about Moira in Foyle's early days among the Scientific People, and what does she tell him are his responsibilities?

6. What are some of the negative aspects and results of jaunting?

7. What is Foyle's response after Jiz removes his bandages on board the Saturn Weekender in Chapter 7, and what does Jiz tell him?

8. What is the truth about Foyle and Jiz's escape from the Gouffre Martel?

9. Describe Robin Wednesbury and her job, as introduced in Chapter 3.

10. What is the relationship between Jiz and Sam Quatt?

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