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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When first arriving at Bol Ye'an with Ashil, what does Borlú want to know?
(a) How they stopped people interested in Orciny from accessing the items.
(b) How they stopped items from being broken during excavation.
(c) How they stopped items from being smuggled off the site.
(d) How they stopped strangers from entering the site.

2. How does David Bowden feel about Rodriguez's disappearance?
(a) He is very confused about it.
(b) He is very doubtful about it.
(c) He is very pleased about it.
(d) He is very upset about it.

3. What had happened to Bowden a few weeks before Geary's murder?
(a) His apartment was broken into.
(b) He was fired.
(c) He was on television.
(d) He was published in a Besz newspaper.

4. Why does Borlú believe Geary was really killed?
(a) Because she was about to publish a groundbreaking study.
(b) Because she was in love with her professor.
(c) Because she stopped believing in Orciny.
(d) Because she was stealing.

5. At the end of the novel, what new name is Borlú known by?
(a) Tye.
(b) Orlu.
(c) Bor.
(d) Tu.

6. What are agents of Breach known as?
(a) Avatars.
(b) Envoys.
(c) Incarnates.
(d) Proxies.

7. Borlú discovers that Geary locked up on the same night as which events?
(a) The Oversight Committee's town hall events.
(b) The Chamber of Commerce's trade events.
(c) The Women in Engineering's business events.
(d) The Art and Culture lecture events.

8. What is the identity of the informant who called Borlú back in Beszel?
(a) Pall Drodin.
(b) Aikam Tsueh.
(c) Harkad Gosz.
(d) Dahar Jaris.

9. Who gets shot at Copula Hall?
(a) Dhatt and Rodriguez.
(b) Bowden and Rodriguez.
(c) Dhatt and Borlú.
(d) Borlú and Bowden.

10. What does Borlú and Dhatt find inside David Bowden's apartment?
(a) Lots of typewriters.
(b) Wires and gears.
(c) Antiques and papers in a pre-Cleavage script.
(d) Old, dirty dishes.

11. What is the name of Dhatt's wife?
(a) Yalah.
(b) Yulia.
(c) Yaliah.
(d) Yallya.

12. How does Borlú describe Precursor mechanisms?
(a) As old and crumbling.
(b) As primitive and unintelligible.
(c) As crude and outdated.
(d) As miraculous and mysterious.

13. To what library does Borlú take the agent of Breach?
(a) The University Library of Copula Hall.
(b) The University Library of Beszel.
(c) The University Library of Orciny.
(d) The University Library of Ul Qoma.

14. What does Buidze say about Tsueh's relationship with the victim?
(a) He said Tsueh was Geary's boss.
(b) He said they did not know one another.
(c) He said they were pretty good friends.
(d) He said they used to date.

15. What does Ashil tell Borlú about the act of breach?
(a) That it is a common crime.
(b) That it is perfectly normal.
(c) That it is easy to avoid doing.
(d) That it is a permanent act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is declared as a result of the accident distracts Borlú and Ashil from the investigation?that

2. What accident distracts Borlú and Ashil from the investigation?

3. According to Breach, what does not exist?

4. What exactly is Breach investigating?

5. Where did Borlú first see the sniper?

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