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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the characters fly the ship around the flat planet?
(a) To slow the ship's orbit.
(b) To examine it more closely.
(c) To avoid its defenses.
(d) To make a safe landing.

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

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

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

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

9. Who joins Kin Arad at the lounge?
(a) Jago Jalo.
(b) Silver.
(c) Joel.
(d) Marco Farfarer.

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

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

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

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

14. What was the profession of Marco's real parents?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Ambassadors.
(c) Translators.
(d) Diplomats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Shand proteins naturally found?

2. What do Kin and the others decide to do with the ship?

3. The Company's treatments can extend human life for at least how long?

4. How many day bills does Kin Arad have?

5. Kin thinks that the humans on the flat planet suspect which of the following?

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