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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Borlú think about Geary's academic work?
(a) It is very controversial.
(b) It is more interesting than her textbook annotations.
(c) It releases a scientific breakthrough.
(d) It is not as interesting as her textbook annotations.

2. What book does Borlú locate in the library?
(a) Dissensi: Hidden Places.
(b) The Cleavage of Orciny.
(c) Between The City and the City.
(d) A History of Orciny.

3. What is the Illitan phrase written on the package sent to Bol Ye'an?
(a) The heart of a wolf.
(b) The pride of a lion.
(c) The fate of a bear.
(d) The mind of a tiger.

4. What does Borlú find inside the library book?
(a) A secret message from Bowden.
(b) Geary's annotations.
(c) A Precursor text.
(d) A list of dissensi.

5. The package sent to Bol Ye'an is addressed to whom?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Tsueh.
(c) Rochambeaux.
(d) Bowden.

6. How does David Bowden feel about Geary's murder?
(a) He feels it is not surprising.
(b) He feels it is unfair.
(c) He feels it is overdue.
(d) He feels it is shocking.

7. Where did Borlú first see the sniper?
(a) He was a member of the Oversight Committee.
(b) He was the owner of the van.
(c) He was a member of the True Citizens.
(d) He was a member of Qoma First.

8. What ultimately happens to Bowden?
(a) He surrenders.
(b) He flees.
(c) He is shot by Ashil.
(d) He detonates a bomb.

9. After the member of the Oversight Committee behind the conspiracy is shot and killed, what does Borlú realize?
(a) He has not accounted for the university's involvement.
(b) He has not accounted for Dhatt's treachery.
(c) He has not accounted for the involvement of Rodriguez and Bowden.
(d) He has not accounted for Tsueh's whereabouts.

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

11. Borlú discovers that Geary locked up the same days as when which person attended the events?
(a) The head of WIE's labor division.
(b) The chairman of the A&C.
(c) The chief engineer of The University of Ul Qoma.
(d) The CEO of Sear and Core.

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

13. According to the informant, what was Geary studying when she was killed?
(a) The Oversight Committee.
(b) Orciny.
(c) Breach.
(d) Dissensi.

14. Borlú also offers to get whom out of the city?
(a) Geary.
(b) Bowden.
(c) Buidze.
(d) Tsueh.

15. Borlú tells Breach that he needs what in order to understand the truth about Orciny?
(a) Geary's notes.
(b) Bowden's notes.
(c) Bol Ye'an records.
(d) Corwi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When within the Breach, Borlú is to be known as what?

2. What is inside the package sent to the Bol Ye'an dig site?

3. Borlú envisions a scenario in which Geary was able to do what?

4. To what library does Borlú take the agent of Breach?

5. Borlú wonders why Rodriguez does not just do what?

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