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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city of the past do Catherine and Lily supposedly drive through as they follow the route Minnie drove?
(a) Atlantis
(b) Rome
(c) Athens
(d) Carioca

2. What happened to the king after the end of the lunar and solar calendars cycle back to their starting points?
(a) Reborn
(b) Moved
(c) Sacrificed
(d) Married

3. How long do Catherine and Lily have to hike through the desert along the walking path?
(a) 4 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 8 hours
(d) 1 hour

4. Which of the following is the best definition for zugzwang?
(a) Caught by ones enemy
(b) At the solution to the problem
(c) Stuck without apparent options
(d) Stuck in the past

5. What does Mireille want the Bishop to do to gain control of the White Queen's pieces?
(a) Sleep with her
(b) Hide them from her
(c) Marry her
(d) Steal them from her

6. Who does Robespierre say that Rousseau learned about the service from?
(a) David
(b) Phoenicians
(c) Marat
(d) Casanova

7. What vow does the Bishop make to Mireille when they are reunited in London?
(a) To take care of her until she dies
(b) To provide her with the cloth from the service
(c) To give her pieces of the service
(d) To give her a child

8. What becomes Mireille's personal mark?
(a) Letter M
(b) B for the Bishop
(c) Figure 8
(d) Knight shape

9. Why does the Abbess refuse to sign the document that condemns the revolution?
(a) She needs to find Mireille
(b) She believes in the revolution
(c) She will be immediately killed
(d) She wants to return to France

10. What does Catherine tell Lily science has discovered that everything (matter, light and sound) is held together by?
(a) Music
(b) Waves of power
(c) Chemicals
(d) Particles

11. Who holds the Black Queen?
(a) Mireille
(b) Plato
(c) Paul
(d) Abbess

12. What does Catherine tell El-Marad?
(a) That Minnie has left the game
(b) That Lily is the Black Queen
(c) That she is protected by Kamel
(d) That she knows he's the White King

13. What does Shahin call a sandstorm?
(a) The White Queen
(b) The White Sands
(c) The Singing Sands
(d) The Refugee of Sand

14. Where does Robespierre say the White Queen is currently?
(a) Mesopotamia
(b) India
(c) England
(d) France

15. Who suddenly and unexpectedly arrives at the conference and refers to Catherine as the one?
(a) Kamel
(b) Muammar Khaddafi
(c) Mahad
(d) El-Marad

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters claimed to have decoded the formula in the service?

2. Why does Mireille state in her diary that she refuses to leave Paris?

3. Which of the following is a dry reddish cake of material that when mixed with other elements could perform miracles of alchemy and heal all human illness?

4. What is Solarin's relationship with Minnie?

5. What deduction do Catherine, Lily and Solarin come to about the placement of the pieces on the chess board?

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