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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. Kin and the others discover that the first island they land on after leaving the sailor's home is really which of the following?
(a) A mechanical volcano.
(b) A free-floating mangrove island.
(c) A giant turtle.
(d) A submerged mountain.

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

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

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

5. What interrupts Kin the second time she tries to bathe?
(a) A group of men who take her into custody.
(b) A sudden storm.
(c) A distress call from Silver.
(d) An attack by a dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the explorers steal as they flee after the man whom they meet in the desert turns on them?

2. Where does Kin hide from her captors?

3. Who catches the raven?

4. What special property does the magical table possess?

5. What do Kin and the others learn from the Djinnee about the center of the flat planet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Kin arrested?

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

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

5. How is the dumbwaiter destroyed?

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

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

8. What is unusual about the first island that Kin and the others come to after leaving the sailors' homeland? What danger does the group face there?

9. Why does Kin refuse to believe that the Company could have created the flat planet?

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

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