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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they discover is the real problem beyond being unable to fire the Hazeltine engines?
(a) They are sitting ducks.
(b) They have a minimal amount of food.
(c) It is getting cold.
(d) They will require parts.

2. What does Hutch realize the next morning?
(a) They will run out of food.
(b) They have no water.
(c) They will not make it until rescue arrives.
(d) The Alpha shuttle can keep them warm until rescue arrives.

3. How do they find the shuttle?
(a) The remotely fly it to them.
(b) By following the map Goerge made as he went along.
(c) They remotely turn on landing lights.
(d) They call its communication system and yell.

4. Who else requires treatment by the ship's physician?
(a) Hutch and Frank.
(b) George and Hutch.
(c) Hutch and Janet.
(d) Janet and Frank.

5. Of the team exploring, who is first attacked?
(a) Hutch.
(b) Frank.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Janet.

6. What occupies Hutch's mind?
(a) How they can safely explore Beta Pacifica III.
(b) How long it will take to reach Earth.
(c) The deaths of George, Maggie and Jake.
(d) The numbers relating to the three planets.

7. What treatment must a physician administer to enable this guide to return?
(a) Tranquilizers.
(b) Sauve.
(c) First aid.
(d) Blood pressure medication.

8. What does Frank tell Hutch on her birthday?
(a) He believes the likely home planet of the Monument Makers to be Beta Pacifica.
(b) He has access to the Tindle Array on the moon.
(c) He wants to enlist her aid.
(d) He wants her to take a leave of absense.

9. What authorization arrives along with the Ashley Tee?
(a) That Frank and Hutch are to scuttle the Wincklemann.
(b) That Hutch can assume a Captaincy.
(c) That Frank is to fully examine the telescope array.
(d) That Frank can use her as he sees fit, within reason.

10. What is unusual about this trip for Jake?
(a) He is trusted by his colleagues.
(b) It is his first time on an unknown world.
(c) It is his first solo pilot flight.
(d) He has a chance to explore alone.

11. Who is the first to cross after Hutch secures a cable to the abandoned space station?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Harvey.
(d) George.

12. What observation does Maggie make?
(a) That they will all likely die.
(b) That they are going further away all the time.
(c) That the situation is hopeless.
(d) That four people could make it, not five.

13. What is Maggie's priority on the space station?
(a) Establishing age.
(b) Collecting symbols.
(c) Being the first.
(d) Establishing power.

14. Who does Hutch meet at Richard's memorial?
(a) His son, Richard.
(b) His cousin, Dick Wald.
(c) His father, Rick.
(d) His brother, Dick.

15. On which moon is there an anomaly?
(a) The one called Luna.
(b) The smallest.
(c) The one designated asThree-B.
(d) The farthest away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stays behind to cover their retreat to the shuttle?

2. What does Carson ask Truscott to do when she tells the group that she must leave just days before the Ashley Tee is due to arrive?

3. What message does the Wincklemann get from the Academy while waiting to leave?

4. How large is it?

5. What timing does Carson believe ir right for the wave and Earth?

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