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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the group discover at the center of the ship?
(a) The raven.
(b) A secret chamber in the ship.
(c) A hatch that was embedded under the ground.
(d) A hole leading to an underground tunnel.

2. Where does the flying statue take Kin?
(a) Back to the crashed ship.
(b) To the zoo.
(c) To the top of a tall tower.
(d) Outside the city.

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

4. What do the explorers see as they fly over the ocean after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) A huge collection of sunken ships.
(b) An impossibly large whale.
(c) Seafaring craft from a variety of cultures.
(d) A strange dead animal.

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

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

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

8. In what type of a building are Marco and Silver imprisoned?
(a) An arena.
(b) A dungeon.
(c) A tower.
(d) A zoo.

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

10. 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 attacked while she sleeps.
(b) Her suit malfunctions at a high altitude.
(c) She is stranded in the water without her suit.
(d) She becomes separated and lost.

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

12. Kin and Silver agree to give which of the following to the sailors in exchange for their help?
(a) Beer.
(b) Gold.
(c) Timber.
(d) Wine.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kin take with her from her hiding place?

2. What do the locals want to do with Kin?

3. What does Silver say about Marco while she is talking with Kin during their first night among the sailor's people?

4. What is Marco's opinion about the demon?

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

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