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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) Fire-breathing dragons.
(b) Griphons.
(c) Sea monsters.
(d) Giants.

2. How does Marco view himself?
(a) As a warrior.
(b) As a human.
(c) As a skilled pilot.
(d) As a traditionalist Kung.

3. After taking the shuttle, how does Kin get to the ship arranged for her by Jago?
(a) By hovercraft.
(b) By boat.
(c) On foot.
(d) By train.

4. What will happen to Silver if she goes without the crucial thing she needs from the dumbwaiter?
(a) She will die.
(b) She will get lost.
(c) She will go insane.
(d) She will not be able to focus.

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

6. The faith of the natives that Kin and the others first meet best approximates which world religion?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Shintoism.
(d) Islam.

7. How does the raven escape from its cage?
(a) It burns its way out.
(b) The cage was left open.
(c) It picks the lock.
(d) Kin releases it.

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

9. What does Jago want from Kin?
(a) He wants her to build a planet for him.
(b) He wants her to see the flat planet.
(c) He wants to buy her day credits.
(d) He wants her to pilot his ship to the flat planet.

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

11. What is the result of the impact that occurs immediately after the ship arrives at the flat planet?
(a) The weapons hold blows up.
(b) The ship loses all of its sensors.
(c) The ship is too damaged to make a return trip.
(d) The raven escapes again.

12. Where are Shand proteins naturally found?
(a) In grasses and herbs.
(b) In shellfish.
(c) Deep under the sea.
(d) Only on the planet Shand.

13. Why does Jago Jalo select Kin to see the planet he has discovered?
(a) She is an expert on the Spindle Kings.
(b) She is well known for handling sensitive information.
(c) She is capable of navigating a ship to it.
(d) She knows how to create new planets.

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

15. What race is Silver?
(a) Kung.
(b) Wheeler.
(c) Shand.
(d) Human.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character claims to have visited a planet with technology so advanced it could have only been created by the Spindle Kings?

2. Why does Jago have a heart attack?

3. One of the devices that Jago Jalo shows to Kin is capable of creating unlimited amounts of which of the following?

4. What was the profession of Marco's real parents?

5. The Spindle Kings were believed to have what characteristic?

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