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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 do the explorers see as they fly over the ocean after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) Seafaring craft from a variety of cultures.
(b) An impossibly large whale.
(c) A huge collection of sunken ships.
(d) A strange dead animal.

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

3. Where does the negotiation between the explorers and the man whom they meet in the desert take place?
(a) At a market.
(b) At a temple.
(c) At the man's home.
(d) At a plaza.

4. How does Kin encounter the winged demon?
(a) She sees it briefly during her escape.
(b) It is placed in the cell next to her.
(c) It appears and offers to free her.
(d) She sees it moving through the prison's walls.

5. What does Kin ask Marco to do with the demon?
(a) Free it.
(b) Kill it.
(c) See if it is also a robot.
(d) Take it captive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silver say about Marco while she is talking with Kin during their first night among the sailor's people?

2. What interrupts Kin and Silver's conversation?

3. Kin and Silver agree to give which of the following to the sailors in exchange for their help?

4. Of what is the magical table made?

5. The group concludes that the demon must use a very advanced form of what technology?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the group being followed by, and how is it unusual?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is the dumbwaiter destroyed?

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