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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their trip to the sailor's homeland, what are the protagonists are attacked by?
(a) Sea monsters.
(b) Griphons.
(c) Giants.
(d) Fire-breathing dragons.

2. What is Kin Arad's job?
(a) To oversee the creation of new planets.
(b) To edit histoy books.
(c) To manage the Disc.
(d) To pilot space probes.

3. Which character claims to have visited a planet with technology so advanced it could have only been created by the Spindle Kings?
(a) Kin Arad.
(b) Silver.
(c) Joel.
(d) Jago Jalo.

4. The Company typically compensates its employees in what way?
(a) By granting them secrets about the Spindle Kings.
(b) By extending their lives.
(c) By allowing them to colonize new planets.
(d) By allowing them to travel between planets.

5. What is the relationship between the Wheelers and the Spindle Kings?
(a) The Wheelers predated the Spindle Kings.
(b) The Wheelers wiped out the Spindle Kings.
(c) They signed a treaty, but the Wheelers mysteriously disappeared.
(d) The Spindle Kings gave advanced technology to the Wheelers.

6. How many day bills does Kin Arad have?
(a) She owes a significant number to the company.
(b) Almost none.
(c) Many more than she needs for the time being.
(d) Enough to last for the next year, and no more.

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

8. The native people agree to do what for Kin and her companions?
(a) Trade with them.
(b) Help repair the spaceship using the dumbwaiter.
(c) Protect them.
(d) Take them to their homeland.

9. Without day credits, employees of the Company would suffer what effects?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Rapid aging.
(c) Almost immediate death.
(d) Senility.

10. The bartender gives something to Kin, why does he do so?
(a) He is worried about her.
(b) She leaves a generous tip.
(c) Someone left it as a gift for Jago.
(d) He appreciates her attention.

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

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

13. What impacts the ship as it approaches the surface of the flat planet?
(a) A meteor.
(b) A missile.
(c) A sea-faring ship.
(d) A rock thrown by a catapult.

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

15. What is Kin waiting for in the lounge in orbit around Kung?
(a) An old friend.
(b) Jago Jalo's next instructions.
(c) Exchange of her day bills into Kung currency.
(d) A shuttle to the planet's surface.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kin theorizes that the flow of water on the planet is controlled in what way?

2. Jago Jalo has a device that allows him to do which of the following?

3. Marco shows the native people how to use the dumbwaiter by helping them program it to make what?

4. Becoming a watcher requires what sacrifice?

5. The space suits that Kin and the others don give them what capability?

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