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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants to go back to the Moties and learn more about them after the Lenin leaves the area?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Horvath.
(c) Sally.
(d) Shelly.

2. Which Fyunch wants the midshipmen to get to her master to avoid their sentence?
(a) Micah.
(b) Saul.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Jack.

3. Once Bury has left the MacArthur, he becomes more and more what?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Violent.
(d) Enraged.

4. Who do Rod and Sally want to perform their wedding ceremony?
(a) Hardy.
(b) The Senator.
(c) Kutuzov.
(d) Cargill.

5. What does the embassy ship claim to have for the humans if they return and talk more with it?
(a) Information.
(b) Lifeboats.
(c) Another ship.
(d) Gifts.

6. What does the Sailing Master think was launched from Mote Prime towards the jump point?
(a) An additional ship.
(b) A personal spacecraft.
(c) A cargo ship.
(d) A fuel ship.

7. Where do the midshipmen crash their lifeboats?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) Into a lake.
(c) In a farming area.
(d) Into a building.

8. How many men are sent to the MacArthur to set the self-destruct sequence in motion?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

9. What is waiting for the Lenin on the other side of the jump point?
(a) A transport ship.
(b) A cargo sloop.
(c) A message sloop.
(d) A carrier ship.

10. How does Porter die?
(a) Beheading.
(b) A laser gun.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A bullet.

11. When a ship launches from More Prime and says they are carrying Ambassadors, what happens?
(a) Communication is cut off.
(b) The Lenin destroys the embassy ship.
(c) The embassy ship destroys the other Motie ship.
(d) The Lenin destroys the ship with the Ambassadors.

12. The Moties, in Chapter 34, are revealed to be close to war, which will likely lead to what?
(a) A complete collapse of their society.
(b) An extinction of their civilization.
(c) A great loss of life.
(d) The destruction of a generation.

13. When the Motie ambassadors realize their revelation about their lifespan is distressing to the humans, they suggest what?
(a) That the humans find a cure.
(b) A recess.
(c) That they might be wrong in their estimates.
(d) That the humans forget it.

14. Who is perplexed by the meaning of gender mutation?
(a) Sally.
(b) Jake.
(c) Cargill.
(d) Horvath.

15. Who predicted the humans would offer to bring the Moties into the Empire with severe limitations?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Jock.
(d) Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Moties contact the Lenin, where did the lifeboats go and were destroyed?

2. Who suggests that the Moties are so well adapted to free-fall that something allowed these adaptations to occur?

3. Who is the prime human liaison for the Motie Ambassadors on the human ship?

4. What is a vital component of every collapse the Motie world has experienced?

5. What do the Moties turn on in their quarters before discussing the limitations of their mission?

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