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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kosmik Station?
(a) The orbiter around Bellatrix V.
(b) The orbiter around Pinnacle.
(c) The float pier.
(d) The orbiter around Quraqua from which Melanie rules.

2. How long has Melanie been in orbit around Quraqua?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two years.

3. What do the friezes in the Temple show?
(a) The civilization recently past.
(b) The moonrise.
(c) The story of Tull from infant to godhood.
(d) The University of Antioch.

4. What do they still require to decipher the language?
(a) A native speaker.
(b) A map.
(c) A dictionary.
(d) A Rosetta stone.

5. Who does Melanie call for assistance?
(a) Carson.
(b) Quraqua.
(c) The Alpha shuttle.
(d) The Wincklemann.

6. What does Harvey Sill ask Jake Kraus to do?
(a) Decrease his output.
(b) Increase his output.
(c) Quit and come back to Kosmik.
(d) Drop his snowball into the ocean on Quraqua.

7. How many APVs and shuttles does the Kosmik have?
(a) One APV and no shuttles.
(b) One shuttle and no APV's.
(c) Two APV's and one shuttle.
(d) Two shuttles and one APV.

8. What does Hutch ask Eddie for as they are loading the shuttle?
(a) A couple of hours off to watch the beach monkeys.
(b) A souvenier of the Seapoint station.
(c) An amulet they found in the Upper Temple.
(d) A barrel of each of the inert chemicals that create packing foam.

9. How high is the wave in the deep sea?
(a) About two meters.
(b) About three meters.
(c) About one meter.
(d) About four meters.

10. What decision does Richard Wald make?
(a) That he has to see the Iapetus like figure for himself.
(b) That he wants to be cremated.
(c) That he wants to return to teaching.
(d) That he wants to mine the moon.

11. What was discovered in the same orbit as Shola's rings?
(a) Four rock cubes.
(b) Five round snowballs.
(c) Six empty shuttles.
(d) One more monument.

12. What does Cal tell her when she picks him up?
(a) That he has a child.
(b) That he is getting married.
(c) That he has a new job.
(d) That he is going with her.

13. What is the best scenario the ground crew can reasonably hope for?
(a) To find something else of equal value.
(b) To dig out the press.
(c) To recover the two chases.
(d) To get out alive.

14. What arrives on Wincklemann for Richard?
(a) An offer to do more field work.
(b) A Presidential congratulations.
(c) A holograph from David Emory.
(d) A message from home.

15. What does Harvey convey to Melanie?
(a) That he doesn't care what she wants.
(b) That they should wait another day.
(c) That he thinks they should go ahead anyway.
(d) That Ian Helm is not responding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is brought to the Wincklemann by Hutch in the next load?

2. Where are Hutch's quarters located?

3. What are the archaeologists trying to uncover?

4. How much is the rainfall predicted to increase by after the devices blow at both poles.

5. What is the name of Quraqua's red sun?

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