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

2. Where does the fight between Kin and the man that the character's bargained with take place?
(a) The tower.
(b) The room where the negotiation took place.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The dungeon.

3. How is Kin able to communicate remotely with Silver?
(a) An earpiece.
(b) A communication device implanted in her palm.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) A guard smuggles her letter out of the prison.

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

5. What special property does the magical sword have?
(a) It can cut through other weapons easily.
(b) It freezes anything its blade touches.
(c) It is sheathed in flames.
(d) It fights on its own.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marco misuse the dumbwaiter during the group's first night at the sailor's homeland?

2. What interrupts Kin and Silver's conversation?

3. What is done with Kin after her captors change their minds?

4. What do some of the characters come to suspect about the flat planet soon after rescuing Kin?

5. The destroyed water pipe is believed to perform what function?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the man on the flying carpet's real motivations?

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

3. How does Kin escape after the man whom she and the others meet in the desert turns on them?

4. How is the dumbwaiter destroyed?

5. Where does the Djinnee come from, and what does he do?

6. How does the group confirm that they are being followed?

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

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

9. What do the explorers come to believe about the machinery of the planet?

10. What happens to Silver as she and the others near the hub?

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