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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of creature do they encounter on the planet?

2. What date does Harvey establish as the last alignment of the four moons?

3. How long does it take to recharge before a second jump can be made?

4. What 'insurance' does Hutch take out against their mission being canceled?

5. How large is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What callous comment does Maggie make that reminds Hutch of all the reasons that her guard is up around Maggie?

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

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

4. What does Hutch finally do to find the shuttle after wandering around lost for some time?

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

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

7. Why does Hutch fake a communications malfunction before the Wincklemann is scheduled to leave?

8. What surprises the Wincklemann when they drop out of their transdimentional jump?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What information led to the discovery of the likely home planet of the Monument Makers? How was the information sorted out, and how were alternate planetary systems eliminated from possibility? What system was used to search? Who did the searching? What was found that pointed the way to the most likely home planet for this race?

Essay Topic 2

Who were the Quraquat? What kind of race were they judging from the things that have been discovered? What information did the race of beings on Quraquat discover more than once? Why were there more than one continual race of beings on the planet? What was the likely demise of this race? How did they try to avoid this eventuality, and what evidence of this exists?

Essay Topic 3

What does Hutch realize after studying all of the figures and locations that are related to the discontinuities? Who does she share this information with first? What does she think they can accomplish? Why is she so sure that her plan will work, and how much time do they have to accomplish their task? What questions will this answer if it works?

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