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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jake reluctant to do as Harvey asks?
(a) It is too early.
(b) It has to be smaller to work.
(c) He is unwilling to waste the water.
(d) Its size will cause tsunami like forces.

2. Who were the Scrivners?
(a) Merchant sailors.
(b) Those who kept records of everything.
(c) Spice merchants.
(d) Trade merchants.

3. Where is the first sign of the beginning of the terraforming?
(a) In the northern sky.
(b) In the eastern sky.
(c) In the southern sky.
(d) In the western sky.

4. What problem prevents them from recovering the press?
(a) The press is pushed behind large debris.
(b) The tunnel has completely collapsed.
(c) The press is destroyed.
(d) The tunnel is not clear enough to get at it.

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

6. When Hutch regains control, what does she discover?
(a) Richard is gone.
(b) The chases fell out.
(c) The shuttle is damaged.
(d) That she is way off course.

7. What planet are they trying to terraform?
(a) Quraqua.
(b) Antioch.
(c) Inakademeri.
(d) Noks.

8. Who warns the scientists about the coming snowball?
(a) Jake Hoffer.
(b) George Hackett.
(c) Melanie Truscott.
(d) Tommy Loughery.

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

10. What does Hutch have to do to get free?
(a) Take off with more acceleration and speed than normal.
(b) Take off on a sharp angle.
(c) Take off in unsecured mode.
(d) Take off early and with cargo bay still open.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many civilizations have lived on Quraqua?

3. How many cannot be removed from the Kosmik in time?

4. What did the Scrivners predict?

5. What else is being done to create additional water for the planet?

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