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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some of the characters come to suspect about the flat planet soon after rescuing Kin?
(a) The Company is related to it somehow.
(b) It has an opposite side which is also inhabited.
(c) It was created by the Spindle Kings.
(d) It is being repaired.

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

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

4. The winged demon has which of the following capabilities?
(a) It can see through walls.
(b) It can coerce anyone to obey it.
(c) It can read thoughts.
(d) It has unimaginable strength.

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

6. How does Marco misuse the dumbwaiter during the group's first night at the sailor's homeland?
(a) He uses it too often, causing the locals to accuse him of witchcraft.
(b) He creates objects of high technology that don't fit in the world.
(c) He tries to program it to make another dumbwaiter.
(d) He allows the sailors to make beer and get drunk.

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

8. What interrupts Kin the second time she tries to bathe?
(a) A sudden storm.
(b) An attack by a dragon.
(c) A group of men who take her into custody.
(d) A distress call from Silver.

9. What does Silver do when she begins to lose her sanity?
(a) She attacks Marco.
(b) She attempts to kill herself.
(c) She tells the others to go on without her.
(d) She attacks Kin.

10. 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) They should try to find a "magical" device that can produce Shand proteins.
(c) Silver should go back to the ship until Kin and Marco return for her.
(d) They should abandon Silver.

11. What does the group eventually decide to do with the winged demon?
(a) Kill it.
(b) Take it with them to the center of the disc.
(c) Send it back to the locals.
(d) Let it go.

12. What did Kin do that contributed to her being arrested by the locals?
(a) She refused to let Marco investigate the area.
(b) She was trespassing.
(c) She didn't listen to Silver's warnings.
(d) She used technological devices that seemed like witchcraft.

13. What is Marco's opinion about the demon?
(a) He thinks it is leading the group into a trap.
(b) He empathizes with its violent spirit.
(c) He wants to trust it, but can't bring himself to.
(d) He dislikes it and wants to kill it.

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

15. The locals who arrested her believe Kin to be __________.
(a) A water spirit.
(b) An heiress.
(c) A sorceress.
(d) A siren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the real motives of the man whom the characters meet in the desert?

2. How does Kin propose to find new Shand proteins for Silver?

3. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?

4. Where does the flying statue take Kin?

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

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