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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maggie worried about?
(a) Being able to get there, investigate and leave undetected.
(b) Losing another team member.
(c) Leaving without her luggage.
(d) Ignoring the message to abort.

2. What does David Emory send in a note addressed to Richard?
(a) Questions about the civilization at Quraqua.
(b) An artifact from Nok.
(c) The discovery of the city of Orikon on Nok.
(d) More information regarding the discontinuity.

3. What does Melanie reveal to them when they disclose how they crashed on arrival?
(a) That there are eight such telescopes in an array in the same orbit.
(b) That she heard their transmission right away.
(c) That she monitored their mission from the start.
(d) That the black disk 'telescopes' are common knowledge.

4. What kind of creature do they encounter on the planet?
(a) Something similar to a cockroach.
(b) Something similar to a crab.
(c) Something similar to a rat.
(d) Something similar to a deer.

5. How many days must they wait yet when the pumps give out?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. In all, how many of the shuttle team are killed on the planet?

2. When a space station is found, what do they see?

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

4. What is unusual about this trip for Jake?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boarding crew notice on approach to the orbiting space station?

2. What is the outcome of their collision?

3. What does Hutch believe they have to do in order to discover the truth behind what is going on?

4. What authorization comes with the Ashley Tee, and who else notifies them that they are on the way?

5. After donning Flickinger harnesses, magnetic boots, and arming themselves with pulsars, what discoveries are made inside the space station?

6. How does Harvey and his recovery team manage to locate Maggie to bring her back?

7. What is the anomaly on the moon that is designated as Three-B?

8. What is Captain Morris's biggest concern as he watches Maggie's body being recovered from a close circuit camera with Melanie?

9. When are they rescued, by whom and what do they learn about the object that caused their crash?

10. What revelation does Hutch have that she wakes Carson to share with him?

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