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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the devices that Jago Jalo shows to Kin is capable of creating unlimited amounts of which of the following?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Water.
(d) Wine.

2. Marco shows the native people how to use the dumbwaiter by helping them program it to make what?
(a) Beer.
(b) Roast pork.
(c) Mutton.
(d) Wine.

3. Kin wrote a popular book on what subject?
(a) The Wheelers.
(b) The strata machine.
(c) The time before the Company.
(d) The Spindle Kings.

4. What danger confronts the thing that attempts to visit Kin and the others?
(a) The raven's attacks.
(b) A sudden and mysterious wind.
(c) The spaceship's automatic defenses.
(d) The current of the waterfall.

5. How old is Kin Arad?
(a) Thousands of years old.
(b) Five hundred years old.
(c) Twenty years old.
(d) A hundred years old.

6. What is the function of a strata machine?
(a) It extends human life.
(b) Its function is unknown.
(c) It creates new worlds.
(d) It allows interstellar travel.

7. What do Kin and Jago need to do at the first planet to which they are headed?
(a) Meet up with the ship that will go to the flat planet.
(b) Escape from the Company's oversight.
(c) Find a crew for their ship.
(d) Meet with Jago's employer.

8. When Kin agrees to go with Jago Jalo, he arranges to take her first to what planet?
(a) Shand.
(b) Kung.
(c) Old Earth.
(d) Earth's first colony.

9. The Spindle Kings were believed to have created new planets for what purpose?
(a) To escape their dying planet.
(b) To create new kinds of life.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) So they could be more alone.

10. In their first morning on the flat planet, what attempts to visit Kin and the others?
(a) A spirit.
(b) A demon.
(c) A seafaring ship.
(d) The raven.

11. What is strange about the stars at the destination?
(a) They are almost impossible to see.
(b) They appear familiar, but they are pointed the wrong direction.
(c) The constellations are out of place.
(d) They are larger than usual.

12. The space suits that Kin and the others don give them what capability?
(a) Invisibility.
(b) Automatic weaponry.
(c) Flight.
(d) Immunity to hunger and thirst.

13. What is unusual about the ship that Jago has arranged for the expedition?
(a) It uses enormous solar sails.
(b) It can't leave the atmosphere on its own.
(c) It is shaped like a doughnut.
(d) It is bright pink.

14. Jago Jalo believes that the flat Earth was created by which group?
(a) The Spindle Kings.
(b) The Builders.
(c) The Company.
(d) The Wheelers.

15. The natives that Kin and the others initially meet are similar to what historical culture on Earth?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Mongols.
(c) The ancient Greeks.
(d) The Romans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marco's mother underwent treatments before his birth to alter him in what way?

2. Why does Jago have a heart attack?

3. On what planet was Marco raised?

4. What is the result of the attack on Kin and the others?

5. What is Kin Arad's job?

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