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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is done with Kin after her captors change their minds?
(a) She is released.
(b) She is sent to the local bishop for judgement.
(c) She is placed in a cell.
(d) She is sent to the local prince for judgement.

2. What is the result of Kin's attempt to take revenge for her friend's imprisonment?
(a) The building is set on fire.
(b) She is badly injured.
(c) The building is destroyed.
(d) The entire town guard is alerted.

3. Where does the negotiation between the explorers and the man whom they meet in the desert take place?
(a) At a plaza.
(b) At a temple.
(c) At a market.
(d) At the man's home.

4. What kind of structure do Kin and the others discover as they approach the center of the flat planet?
(a) A fortress.
(b) A dome.
(c) A tower.
(d) A valley.

5. The group concludes that the demon must use a very advanced form of what technology?
(a) Psychic control.
(b) Jet propulsion.
(c) Teleportation.
(d) Laser beams.

6. What special property does the magical table possess?
(a) It can move on its own.
(b) It can create almost anything a person wishes for.
(c) It can increase or diminish in size.
(d) It weighs nothing.

7. When they land on an island after leaving the sailor's people, what does Kin attempt to do?
(a) Determine their latitude and longitude.
(b) Find the locals.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Start a cooking fire.

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

9. How does Kin propose to find new Shand proteins for Silver?
(a) By going directly to Shand when they leave the flat planet.
(b) By searching for help at the hub.
(c) By returning to the ship.
(d) By using a technological device from the flat planet.

10. The explorers conclude what about the machinery of the flat planet?
(a) It is manipulating the inhabitants.
(b) It is getting old and wearing out.
(c) It is out of control.
(d) It is not as advanced as they thought.

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. What sort of person is asked to act as a negotiator for the barter that takes place between the explorers and the man they meet in the desert?
(a) A Djinnee.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A talking statue.
(d) A priest.

13. What danger is Kin in soon after she and the others land on the first island they find after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) She is stranded in the water without her suit.
(b) Her suit malfunctions at a high altitude.
(c) She is attacked while she sleeps.
(d) She becomes separated and lost.

14. For what does the man whom the characters meet in the desert want to trade?
(a) Silver's services as a linguist.
(b) The destroyed dumbwaiter.
(c) The rights to salvage the crashed ship.
(d) The space suits.

15. What destroys the dumbwaiter?
(a) Marco destroys it in anger.
(b) An artificial bolt of lightning.
(c) A sudden landslide.
(d) A mob of religious locals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marco misuse the dumbwaiter during the group's first night at the sailor's homeland?

2. What is unusual about the demon's appearance?

3. With regards to Silver's impending madness, what course of action does Kin initially suggest?

4. What interrupts Kin the second time she tries to bathe?

5. Soon after rescuing Kin, the group discovers what kind of a structure?

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