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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are passives?
(a) High-tech movies.
(b) Harmless mites.
(c) Old movies.
(d) Sedated activists.

2. After Dr. X guides his ship into the jurisdiction of Judge Fang, what does Dr. X offer to do?
(a) Surrender to Judge Fang.
(b) Surrender the women and children into human trading.
(c) Join the phyle of Judge Fang.
(d) Copy books for Judge Fang.

3. When Nell reads the Primer for the second time, who frees Princess Nell and her friends from the castle?
(a) A duck.
(b) A prince.
(c) A raven.
(d) Harv.

4. What does Nell do with the matter compiler after her brother leaves the house?
(a) Nell generates a month's worth of food.
(b) Nell generates enough mattresses to fill the room.
(c) Nell breaks the matter compiler.
(d) Nell destroys the gift her brother made.

5. Nell learns how to light a fire while reading what story in the Primer?
(a) Princess Nell's adoptive parents teaching her and Harv how to light a fire.
(b) Princess Nell and Harv camping in the woods.
(c) Harv lighting a fire to keep trolls away at night.
(d) Harv preparing a meal for Princess Nell.

6. Judge Fang's prisoner, PhyrePhox, is accused of belonging to which criminal gang?
(a) The Fist of Leftist Harmony.
(b) The Mites of Righteous Harmony.
(c) The Fist of Righteous Harmony.
(d) The Might of Righteous Peace.

7. What does Demetrius Cotton give to Hackworth when he arrives at work?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A plan for a power supply.
(c) A book.
(d) Money.

8. In the Primer, how does Miranda intervene in the story when she learns that Nell is in danger from her mother's new partner?
(a) Miranda advises Nell to ask Tequila to leave her new partner.
(b) Miranda tells Nell to stop reading the Primer.
(c) Miranda uses Dinosaur to teach Nell how to defend herself.
(d) Miranda tells Nell to flee with her brother to a police station or orphanage.

9. In the playroom of Nell's apartment building, what happens to the children who steal Nell's book?
(a) They are carried off by mites.
(b) They suffer a mysterious and sudden illness.
(c) They are sprayed with blue ink.
(d) They become invisible.

10. When Harv brings a stolen Primer to Nell, why does she throw it on the floor?
(a) The Primer begins telling the story of a girl named Fiona.
(b) She does not want her mother's boyfriend to see the book.
(c) The Primer begins telling the story of a girl named Elizabeth.
(d) She does not want her brother to give her stolen property.

11. What do Harv and Nell conclude about the small piece of cloth Harv found near the sea?
(a) The woven threads must contain a secret code.
(b) The woven threads are too complicated to be made by mites.
(c) The woven threads must be the remains of a sea creature.
(d) The woven threads are too complicated to be human-made.

12. After Nell and Harv are beaten by their mother's newest partner, how does Nell incorporate the event into her Primer?
(a) Nell changes the name of the evil Baron to Bud.
(b) Nell changes the name of the evil stepfather to Burt.
(c) Nell changes the name of the evil stepfather to Bud.
(d) Nell changes the name of the evil Baron to Burt.

13. In "Nell Sees Something Peculiar," Nell sees Harv and everything outside her window covered in a black dust called what?
(a) Coal.
(b) Toner.
(c) Nanopollution.
(d) Reycling dust.

14. In the Primer, what does the raven say Nell must do in order to rescue Harv from the castle?
(a) Collect twelve keys in the hands of twelve trolls.
(b) Collect ten keys in the hands of ten kings and queens.
(c) Collect ten keys in the hands of ten trolls.
(d) Collect twelve keys in the hands of twelve kings and queens.

15. What false information is given to Hackworth to lure him to the Flea Circus?
(a) Hackworth is told that Dr. X has the stolen copy of the Primer.
(b) Hackworth is told that Lord Finkle-McGraw plans to turn Hackworth over to Judge Fang.
(c) Hackworth is told that Lord Finkle-McGraw is a friend of Dr. X.
(d) Hackworth is told that Judge Fang has the stolen copy of the Primer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The granddaughter of Lord Finkle-McGraw and the daughter of Hackworth attend a birthday party for whom?

2. In the torture chanber, PhyrePhox admits that his organization's ship carries what cargo?

3. When Chang visits Hackworth at his home, what item does he bring?

4. Bud steals money from a family who are members of what?

5. When Nell reads the Primer alone in her room, who becomes its main character?

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