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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 is unusual about the demon's appearance?
(a) Its skin color shifts and changes.
(b) Everyone finds that they want to look away from it.
(c) It is fuzzy around the edges.
(d) It is blurry when viewed at a distance.

2. What does Kin dislike about the way Marco rescues her?
(a) He tries to make himself seem like a hero.
(b) He takes too long in coming to her rescue.
(c) He destroys the entire building she is held in.
(d) He uses excessive force against the guards.

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

4. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?
(a) They move in unpredictably.
(b) They seem to be getting closer.
(c) The flicker out sometimes.
(d) They are vanishing more and more rapidly.

5. What does Marco do with the demon, despite Kin's suggestion?
(a) He takes it prisoner.
(b) He sets it free.
(c) He tries to reason with it.
(d) He kills it.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man whom the characters meet in the desert wants to trade away what kind of an object?

2. What do the locals want to do with Kin?

3. The explorers conclude what about the machinery of the flat planet?

4. What does the group eventually decide to do with the winged demon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Kin and Marco resolve to do until Shand proteins can be found for Silver?

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Kin arrested?

7. How are the explorers greeted when they reach the sailors' homeland?

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

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

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

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