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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Jake and Harvey compromise on?
(a) Jake wants the scientists evacuated first.
(b) Jake agrees but only if it is cut in half.
(c) Jake refuses unless he has recorded the order for his protection.
(d) Jack agrees to do so with a smaller piece.

4. What pattern does Richard believe exists?
(a) A pattern to Oz.
(b) A pattern to the Towers.
(c) A pattern to the discontinuities.
(d) A pattern to the stars.

5. Where does everyone gather to ride it out?
(a) The Alpha shuttle.
(b) The pier.
(c) The main diving pool.
(d) The Lower Temple.

6. 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) A barrel of each of the inert chemicals that create packing foam.
(d) An amulet they found in the Upper Temple.

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

8. Where is Richard when Hutch is forced to take off?
(a) Stuck in the Lower Temple.
(b) In his quarters below.
(c) Unconscious in the dive room.
(d) Hanging on the cable.

9. What part of the terraforming schedule is likely to cause the largest problem on Quraqua?
(a) The arrival of early stage citizenry.
(b) The draining of the local lakes.
(c) The scheduled melting of the ice caps.
(d) The release of nuclear material to create atmosphere.

10. Where are Hutch's quarters located?
(a) Oz.
(b) Cliffside.
(c) Seapoint.
(d) Knothic Towers.

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

12. What damage does the third wave do?
(a) Takes one of Seapoint's domes two miles inland.
(b) Blows off the roof.
(c) Destroys two of the three Knothic Towers.
(d) Buries the Lower Temple.

13. Who is brought to the Wincklemann by Hutch in the next load?
(a) Andi, Linda and Art.
(b) Andi, Tri, and Art
(c) Linda, Tommy and Tri.
(d) Tommy, Art and Andi.

14. How much is the rainfall predicted to increase by after the devices blow at both poles.
(a) 25%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 18%.

15. What kind of construction does the city have?
(a) Base ten construction.
(b) Triangular construction.
(c) Rectangular construction.
(d) Circular construction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the city Richard and Hutch explore from the Alpha shuttle first?

2. What is the best scenario the ground crew can reasonably hope for?

3. What is the name of the shuttle that Hutch pilots and Richard hitches a ride on?

4. What does George discover in the Lower Temple?

5. What conditions does Ed Horner put on giving Richard a ride?

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