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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what kind of a formation do kin and the others land to spend their first night on the flat planet?
(a) A volcanoe.
(b) A mountain.
(c) An island.
(d) A plateau.

3. What is Silver's profession?
(a) Astrogator.
(b) Historian.
(c) Linguist.
(d) Engineer.

4. Jago Jalo has a device that allows him to do which of the following?
(a) Walk through walls.
(b) Fly.
(c) See into the near future.
(d) Disappear and reappear at will.

5. Which of the following best characterizes the Kung?
(a) They love exploration.
(b) They are peace-loving.
(c) They are xenophobic.
(d) They are prone to violence.

6. Kin's coworkers believed it would be funny to do what to the planet they were creating?
(a) Make it a cube.
(b) Give it no atmosphere.
(c) Make it flat.
(d) Leave their mark on it.

7. The Spindle Kings were believed to have what characteristic?
(a) They lived in vast hive cities.
(b) They were extremely warlike.
(c) They had an insect-like colony system.
(d) They prefered to be alone.

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

9. What does Silver learn about by studying Kin's books?
(a) Kin's life-story.
(b) Kin's work with the Company.
(c) The history of the Spindle Kings and the Wheelers.
(d) The history of humanity.

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

11. What does a "watcher" do?
(a) Oversees the creation of new planets.
(b) Monitors the Terminus project.
(c) Looks for evidence of the Spindle Kings.
(d) Watches the progress of colonists on a new world.

12. What does Kin do with Jago's forgery?
(a) Forgets about it.
(b) Destroys it.
(c) Has it tested.
(d) Gives it to Joel.

13. After the explorers and the sailors are attacked during the trip to the sailor's homeland, Kin draws what conclusion about the attackers?
(a) They were summoned by the natives.
(b) They are just misunderstood.
(c) They were illusions.
(d) They are robots made with very advanced technology.

14. How is the ship piloted down to the planet?
(a) By an automated computer.
(b) By following a robotic bird.
(c) By tractor beams.
(d) Through a hole in its atmosphere.

15. What does the bartender give to Kin?
(a) A raven in a cage.
(b) A free tab.
(c) A wrapped gift.
(d) A warning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Without day credits, employees of the Company would suffer what effects?

2. Why does Jago have a heart attack?

3. What is unusual about the ship that Jago has arranged for the expedition?

4. How does Marco view himself?

5. During their trip to the sailor's homeland, what are the protagonists are attacked by?

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