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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. Where is Stephanie, her friends and the children when they have reached the military border between the possessed and the living?
(a) Totani.
(b) Nylan.
(c) Ombrey.
(d) Mareti.

2. When the possessed find the broken toilet and try to follow, Rubra releases________ from the toilets all over the starscraper.
(a) Long streamers.
(b) Balloons.
(c) Jets of water.
(d) Dirt and confetti.

3. What does the spaceship Beezling need to travel faster?
(a) Jump power.
(b) Fuel.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Support.

4. Who rescues Monica from the possessed in the foundry?
(a) Mzu.
(b) Lodi.
(c) Gelai.
(d) Joshua.

5. When Moyo goes in search of working toilets for the children to use, who does he find in a warehouse?
(a) A possessed woman.
(b) A non-possessed girl.
(c) A non-possessed man.
(d) A possessed man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the Kiint on Tranquillity that comes to visit Kelly?

2. What does Rocio need that is available from habitats and some asteroid stations in order to stay alive after he is injured?

3. What does Rubra jettison as Tatiana is rescued by the Edenist voidhawks?

4. When Joshua fears the worst happened to the habitat at the end of the final battle, who points out that there is not enough wreckage for the habitat to have been destroyed?

5. Who does Mzu want to ambush at Toi-Hoi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Quinn's deranged mental state evident in the bloody massacre of Dwyer?

2. How have the main characters of Mzu, Joshua, Liol, Samuel, Monica, and others grown by the end of the novel?

3. Why do Dariat and Rubra want to fuse their powers?

4. What is the power inherent in the Alchemist?

5. How is Rocio different from other souls that are possessed?

6. What happens when a possessed goes to zero tau?

7. What does the revelation that Mzu's husband Peter was left on Beezling reveal about her motivations?

8. Why are the Edenists willing to accept the hellhawk in Chapter 13?

9. How do Samuel, Mzu, and Monica try to escape the possessed via the basin?

10. Why is Bonney intent on killing Dariat?

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