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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. What does Macro initially not like about Silver?
(a) He does not like members of her race.
(b) Her abruptness and rudeness.
(c) Her frightening appearance.
(d) Her ingratiating politeness.

2. What do Kin and Jago need to do at the first planet to which they are headed?
(a) Meet up with the ship that will go to the flat planet.
(b) Meet with Jago's employer.
(c) Find a crew for their ship.
(d) Escape from the Company's oversight.

3. Why do the characters fly the ship around the flat planet?
(a) To slow the ship's orbit.
(b) To examine it more closely.
(c) To avoid its defenses.
(d) To make a safe landing.

4. Why does Jago try to force Marco and Silver from the ship?
(a) They have brought recording equipment.
(b) They refuse to pay for the journey.
(c) They want to share information about the flat planet.
(d) They are not human.

5. What is the result of the impact that occurs immediately after the ship arrives at the flat planet?
(a) The raven escapes again.
(b) The weapons hold blows up.
(c) The ship is too damaged to make a return trip.
(d) The ship loses all of its sensors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the function of a strata machine?

2. Kin wrote a popular book on what subject?

3. The Great Spindle Kings were believed to have what capability?

4. Kin Arad works for which of the following groups?

5. Marco's mother underwent treatments before his birth to alter him in what way?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Kin and the others help the sailors who try to visit them?

3. According to Joel, what are the consequences of the forgery of day bills? What does Joel do as a result?

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

5. What does the Kung bartender's action say about Kin's fame?

6. What are some of the technological resources that the group has at their disposal, and how will these things help them?

7. How does Jago die?

8. Who were the Spindle Kings, and what were they like?

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

10. What are Kin's interests, outside of her work?

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