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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. Looking at the methodology of the cult in Chapter 7, James realizes that the actual murders are what?
(a) Accidental.
(b) Afterthoughts.
(c) Suicides.
(d) Mercy killings.

2. What scares Owen about religion?
(a) The wars it engenders.
(b) The iconography.
(c) The non-governmental hierarchy.
(d) Masses of people with the same emotion.

3. Who is Del Nearing?
(a) Volterra's translater.
(b) A Sabre tour-guide.
(c) Volterra's assistant.
(d) James's lover.

4. In Chapter 5, where is Anand planning to go soon?
(a) The United States.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

5. Which of following characters does not speak Ob?
(a) Tap.
(b) Kathryn.
(c) James.
(d) Owen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of his apartment is James at the end of Chapter 3?

2. What specific problem is Volterra having with his excursions in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 5, what does Volterra talk to Owen about?

4. In Chapter 1, what monument do James Axton and his friends discuss?

5. Which of the following characters admits to having never been to a famous monument in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What strange coincidence does James notice at the end of Chapter 6?

2. What explanation of the language cult's motives does Vosdanik offer in Chapter 6?

3. Describe the tiff that Charles Maitland and James have at the end of Chapter 7.

4. Describe Owen Brademas.

5. Describe the murder in Kouros.

6. How did James Axton begin working at Northeast Group?

7. What theory about the language cult does James present to Owen in Chapter 7?

8. Why are the Axtons separated?

9. What do Owen and James talk about at the end of Chapter 2?

10. According to Owen in Chapter 5, Why does the world hate America?

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