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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. How does the winged demon communicate with Kin?
(a) By writing with its claw.
(b) By taking control of people around it and forcing them to speak.
(c) By telepathy.
(d) It does not communicate in any way.

2. 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 tries to program it to make another dumbwaiter.
(c) He creates objects of high technology that don't fit in the world.
(d) He allows the sailors to make beer and get drunk.

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

4. The destroyed water pipe is believed to perform what function?
(a) Fills a nearby lake.
(b) Drains the surrounding area.
(c) Carries fresh water to a nearby well.
(d) Returns water from the edge of the disc.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What destroys the dumbwaiter?

2. Compared to what the company can produce, what can be said about the demon's technology?

3. What did Kin do that contributed to her being arrested by the locals?

4. Where do the explorers sleep that night?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom do Kin and the others meet in the desert? What is the result of this meeting?

2. What is Marco's plan, and what do Kin and Silver think about it?

3. Why is Kin arrested?

4. What is unusual about the stars seen from the flat planet?

5. What happens to Kin and the others at the end of this section?

6. How do Kin's feelings about the Company begin to change soon after the dumbwaiter is destroyed?

7. What does the group discover at the ship's crash-site?

8. What does the group do with the winged demon?

9. What do the locals intend to do with Kin, and how is this prevented?

10. Describe the creature put into the cell next to Kin. What does the group eventually learn and speculate about it?

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