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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the bartender request from Kin?
(a) Her picture.
(b) Her voice imprint for his tape translation of her book.
(c) Her autograph.
(d) Her fingerprint.

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

3. Becoming a watcher requires what sacrifice?
(a) The forfeiture of all day credits.
(b) The employee must be put to sleep for several generations.
(c) Never being able to return to Earth.
(d) Leaving normal human society forever.

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

5. Which of the following best describes the first reactions of the flat planet's inhabitants to Kin and her companions?
(a) Hatred and violence.
(b) Curiosity and civility.
(c) A total lack of interest.
(d) Fear.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Why does Jago try to force Marco and Silver from the ship?
(a) They want to share information about the flat planet.
(b) They have brought recording equipment.
(c) They are not human.
(d) They refuse to pay for the journey.

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

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

12. What do Kin and the others decide to do with the ship?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Put it on autopilot.
(c) Abandon it.
(d) Hide it.

13. Kin theorizes that the flow of water on the planet is controlled in what way?
(a) By force fields.
(b) It is not controlled, and the planet is losing water.
(c) By a huge machine.
(d) By gravity.

14. Marco's mother underwent treatments before his birth to alter him in what way?
(a) To extend his life expectancy.
(b) To make him immune to most disease.
(c) To make him a warrior.
(d) To heighten his intelligence.

15. The Company's treatments can extend human life for at least how long?
(a) Five hundred years.
(b) Thousands of years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) One hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. The native people agree to do what for Kin and her companions?

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

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

4. How does Marco view himself?

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

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