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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kin become upset when the expedition gets underway?
(a) She is distressed by Jago's condition.
(b) She has decided to back out.
(c) She doesn't get along with Marco and Silver.
(d) She hates space travel.

2. How is the ship piloted?
(a) Using film left by Jago.
(b) By autopilot.
(c) By aiming directly for a certain star.
(d) Using telepathy.

3. Why does Silver go by a nickname?
(a) She only shares her real name with trusted friends.
(b) She has forgotten her real name.
(c) Her name can't be pronounced by humans.
(d) Her name is six syllables long.

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

5. What is unusual about the ship that Jago has arranged for the expedition?
(a) It is bright pink.
(b) It uses enormous solar sails.
(c) It can't leave the atmosphere on its own.
(d) It is shaped like a doughnut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins Kin Arad at the lounge?

2. After the explorers and the sailors are attacked during the trip to the sailor's homeland, Kin draws what conclusion about the attackers?

3. What is strange about the stars at the destination?

4. When Kin agrees to go with Jago Jalo, he arranges to take her first to what planet?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the explorers able to communicate with the inhabitants of the flat planet?

2. As they fly around the flat planet, what do Kin and the others observe and conclude about it?

3. What is Marco's background, and what does he believe about himself?

4. What evidence does Jago produce to back up his claims about the flat planet?

5. What things are unusual about the ship that Jago arranged for the expedition?

6. Describe the steps Kin goes through to get to the ship after she arrives at Kung.

7. What does a watcher do, and what is required of a watcher?

8. What does each character do during the journey to the flat planet?

9. What does the Company provide for humanity as a whole and, specifically, for its employees?

10. How did the strata machine chance human history?

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