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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Saskia and the other guests get to Flying S Ranch?
(a) By SUV.
(b) By Monorail.
(c) By personal drone.
(d) By train.

2. Who does Willem go to visit in Louisiana?
(a) His son.
(b) His father.
(c) His wife.
(d) His husband.

3. Whats is Laks' real first name?
(a) Nayan.
(b) Ranjit.
(c) Ramm.
(d) Deep.

4. What does Michiel say is Venice's main climate related problem?
(a) Drought.
(b) Hurricanes.
(c) Forest fire.
(d) Sea level rise.

5. What does Rufus name the first horse that he lures back to his living location at Flying S Ranch?
(a) Pequod.
(b) Bildad.
(c) Ishmael.
(d) Ahab.

6. Who is Lotte?
(a) Saskia's daughter.
(b) Saskia's logistics officer.
(c) Rufus' wife.
(d) Amelia's sister.

7. What are the nets that are stretched across Flying S Ranch for?
(a) Protection against avalanche boulders.
(b) Catching sulfur bullet shells on their way back down to earth.
(c) Protection against flash hail storms.
(d) Climbing playground for kids.

8. What song is Willem's guilty pleasure that he listens to on his way home after seeing Saskia safely back to her home?
(a) King of the Beach.
(b) Riding Out the Storm.
(c) Permanent Waves.
(d) Rock of the Ocean.

9. According to the book, to which empire did Albania's two islands belong?
(a) The British Empire.
(b) The Venetian Empire.
(c) The Danish Empire.
(d) The Dutch Empire.

10. Why is Pippa going to the Line of Actual Control?
(a) To have a cool adventure.
(b) To fight alongside Laks.
(c) To document the conflict going on at the Line of Actual Control.
(d) To Protest the fighting.

11. What is T.R.'s full real name?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt Schmidt.
(b) Thurgood Reston Schuller.
(c) Thomas Reginald Lincoln.
(d) Thaddeus Rookwood Harrington.

12. Who does Lan Lu mean in English, according to the book?
(a) Green Mantis.
(b) White Tiger.
(c) Red Scorpion.
(d) Blue Heron.

13. Who does Willem meet just after seeing the Mississippi Delta water diversion?
(a) A Chinese functionary named Bo.
(b) A representative from Venice.
(c) An ambassador's aid to the Netherlands.
(d) A logistics officer for T.R.

14. Who is Snout?
(a) Saskia's pet goat.
(b) Amelia's bomb detecting dog.
(c) A wild pig.
(d) Snout is Rufus' nickname.

15. Who is Adele?
(a) Saskia's daughter.
(b) Rufus' daughter.
(c) Saskia's best friend.
(d) Willem's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does T.R. hire that comes and lives out where Rufus lives?

2. For what tribe was Rufus' great-great grandad a slave?

3. What oxygen deprivation sport does Gopinder play?

4. What is T.R. fictitious last name that he uses on billboards and television commercials?

5. What is the the giant conical mound made of that Saskia sees when she and the other guests arrive at an industrial park just past the Johnson Space Center?

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