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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Silver say about Marco while she is talking with Kin during their first night among the sailor's people?
(a) He is too friendly with the locals.
(b) He will betray the group.
(c) He is less human than be believes.
(d) He is hiding something.

2. What do Kin and Silver conclude about the raven?
(a) It wants to kill them.
(b) It came from the flat planet originally.
(c) It is some kind of spy.
(d) It is a normal raven.

3. What interrupts Kin and Silver's conversation?
(a) A fight breaks out in the great hall.
(b) A large meteor falls nearby.
(c) The locals ask them to move on.
(d) Silver suddenly falls asleep.

4. What do the explorers hope to find at the center of the planet?
(a) Jago's contacts on the planet.
(b) Machinery to repair their spacecraft.
(c) The Spindle Kings.
(d) A control room and the Builders.

5. What do Kin and the others learn from the Djinnee about the center of the flat planet?
(a) It is guarded by demons.
(b) It is forbidden for anyone to come near it.
(c) It is protected by a force field.
(d) There is nothing there.

6. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?
(a) They move in unpredictably.
(b) The flicker out sometimes.
(c) They seem to be getting closer.
(d) They are vanishing more and more rapidly.

7. What unusual thing about the ocean do the explorer's notice as they fly over it after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) It has no tides.
(b) There is strange flow of water in at least one area..
(c) It is divided into reserviors.
(d) There are numerous whirlpools in some areas..

8. With regards to Silver's impending madness, what course of action does Kin initially suggest?
(a) Everyone should stay calm until they reach the hub.
(b) Silver should go back to the ship until Kin and Marco return for her.
(c) They should try to find a "magical" device that can produce Shand proteins.
(d) They should abandon Silver.

9. Kin helps heal some injured locals by using which of the following?
(a) A medical sphere.
(b) A healing potion.
(c) A poultice.
(d) An injection of nanites.

10. What are the real motives of the man whom the characters meet in the desert?
(a) He wants to turn Kin into the authorities for a bounty.
(b) He wants to rob Kin and the others.
(c) He wants to prevent Kin and the others from reaching the hub.
(d) He wants revenge for Jago's theft.

11. Who pleads with Kin's captors not to do what they were planning to do with her?
(a) Another captive.
(b) A priest.
(c) A young woman.
(d) The local mayor.

12. Why does Kin think that the Company would never build a planet like the flat Earth?
(a) She has studied the Company's archives and she has never seen a record of it.
(b) Its temporary nature goes against the Company's policy.
(c) It is too far from the Company's production facilities.
(d) It could not be created by a strata machine.

13. The flying statue that takes Kin out of the place she hides in has the form of which of the following?
(a) A griffin.
(b) A horse.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A giant eagle.

14. Soon after rescuing Kin, the group discovers what kind of a structure?
(a) A pyramid.
(b) A temple.
(c) A long wall.
(d) A quarry.

15. What special property does the magical sword have?
(a) It is sheathed in flames.
(b) It freezes anything its blade touches.
(c) It fights on its own.
(d) It can cut through other weapons easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Compared to what the company can produce, what can be said about the demon's technology?

2. In what type of a building are Marco and Silver imprisoned?

3. What do the explorers see as they fly over the ocean after leaving the sailor's home?

4. What do the explorers steal as they flee after the man whom they meet in the desert turns on them?

5. Where does the fight between Kin and the man that the character's bargained with take place?

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