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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Temple of the Winds: Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the shuttle that Hutch pilots and Richard hitches a ride on?
(a) The 'Quraqua Speedster'.
(b) The 'Winking Jonathan'.
(c) The 'Johann Winckelmann'.
(d) The 'Jonathan Winklerman'.

2. What is surprising about the figure Harry discovers in the friezes on the Temple?
(a) There is one the same on Iapetus.
(b) There are others on Earth.
(c) It is depicting a monument maker.
(d) They exist on every planet they find.

3. What does Richard notice about it?
(a) From the center outward, it shows no sign of symmetry.
(b) From the center to the outer ring it is concentric.
(c) From the center outward, it is a mirror image of itself.
(d) From the center outward, it is in ever larger circles.

4. How many researchers are currently working in extrasolar stations according to the Boston Globe?
(a) Twenty eight hundred.
(b) Eighteen thousand.
(c) Eighteen hundred.
(d) Eighty thousand.

5. What conditions does Ed Horner put on giving Richard a ride?
(a) That he teach a class, and take Ed along.
(b) That he deliver a lecture and take him to dinner.
(c) That he get off Quraqua on time and that he talk to Caseway.
(d) That he take a physical, and provide funding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language are the symbols found written in?

2. What are the archaeologists trying to uncover?

3. What decision does Richard Wald make?

4. How long does it take to get to Quraqua?

5. How many civilizations have lived on Quraqua?

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