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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baker use on Foyle to remove his tattoos?

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

3. What critical bit of information does Foyle withhold from Jiz while they were still at Gouffre Martel?

4. What did the accident at Tycho Sands do to Saul Dagenham?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the steps Foyle takes in activating the Nomad's engines.

2. What procedure do the Scientific People perform on Foyle that makes him like them?

3. What does Foyle discover on board the Nomad when he returns to the Sargasso Asteroid?

4. What is the relationship between Presteign and Dagenham?

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

6. What happens to Foyle when he gets emotional or angry, and what does Jiz tell him to do about it?

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

8. What relationship does Robin have with Foyle early on?

9. How did the Scientific People come to be?

10. What happens as Foyle attempts to leave the asteroid with the safe from the Nomad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Early in the book, Foyle, who is stranded on board the spaceship Nomad, manages to escape the ship after being bypassed (he thinks) by the crew of the Vorga. He finds himself among the Scientific People. The Scientific People tattoo him with tiger-like markings and with the name, Nomad, across his forehead. Discuss how those markings are an externalization of his internal crisis, his drive for revenge on the Vorga, and the significance of the name Nomad apart from it being the name of his spaceship. What is Foyle's chief motivation for his actions while with the Scientific People?

Essay Topic 2

Robin Wednesbury and Presteign are both key characters in the novel. Both of them will play key roles in Foyle's life. Symbolically, they represent two ends of the spectrum showing how external characters can display the internal characteristics of Foyle. Discuss how Robin and Presteign show the duality of the forces at work in and around Foyle. Point out how their nature and temperament contrast each other. Also discuss how Foyle's fate is somehow bound up in these two characters.

Essay Topic 3

Fourmyle's Four Mile Circus is encamped in what is known as Old St. Pat's, what was once St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Discuss the irony of this group taking up residence in what was once a church, being mindful of what the Circus represents. Explain why the Circus is such an attraction to the people in the culture. Is it an escape? An ideal to be emulated? Evidence of the culture's depravity? Or something else entirely?

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