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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Della's mission?
(a) To keep Wili safe.
(b) To find Paul Hoehler.
(c) To bring down the Tinkers.
(d) To steal Paul's technology.

2. What does Wili intend to do when he leaves Paul's house?
(a) Steal any valuable items.
(b) Kill Paul.
(c) Burn it down.
(d) Steal the horses.

3. What unusual being does Wili believe he sees in Paul's house?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A monster.
(c) A dwarf.
(d) An alien.

4. To whom does Allison intend to report her findings about Livermore?
(a) Paul Hoehler.
(b) Miguel Rosas.
(c) Fred Torres.
(d) Angus Quiller.

5. What was Wili's social status in the factions?
(a) Slave.
(b) Servant.
(c) Laborer.
(d) Serf.

6. Jill, the being that Wili initially took for a ghost, is really what?
(a) A computer simulation.
(b) A hallucination.
(c) A psychic projection.
(d) A hologram.

7. What is the entrance to the bioscience lab disguised as?
(a) An orchard.
(b) A dairy farm.
(c) A wheat field.
(d) A vineyard.

8. Which of the following is one of the chores Wili is assigned to?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Handling deliveries.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Mucking out the stables.

9. What does Mike think about Wili's illness?
(a) He is exaggerating it.
(b) He will eventually die of it, regardless of care.
(c) He is near death.
(d) He will recover quickly without further aid.

10. What does Paul try to convince Jeremy's grandfather of?
(a) That he is in danger.
(b) That he should produce an untested device for Paul.
(c) That he should relocate the company.
(d) That he should help fight the Authority.

11. What was the main role of the group that Jeremy's grandfather was a part of?
(a) Reconnaissance.
(b) Sabotage.
(c) Counter-intelligence.
(d) Combat.

12. What evidence causes the Authority to suspect the Tinkers possess an advanced technology?
(a) Allison's crashed aircraft.
(b) Observation of Paul's home.
(c) The collapse of the first bobbles.
(d) The Tinker's ability to move and coordinate quickly.

13. Why does Wili believe he will be killed if he returns to the factions?
(a) He might have been corrupted by outside ideas.
(b) He might have shared their secrets.
(c) He would be seen as a traitor.
(d) He would no longer know the latest passwords.

14. The people who gather at the Old California Shopping Center refer to themselves as what?
(a) Techs.
(b) Splicers.
(c) Tinkers.
(d) Hackers.

15. What cover does Paul plan to use to conceal his reasons for taking Wili for treatment?
(a) An alternate identity as a merchant.
(b) A conference about technology.
(c) A chess tournament.
(d) A meeting with an old friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Della threaten Mike with, should he fail to cooperate with her?

2. Why have others often urged Paul to take on an apprentice?

3. When Wili and Jeremy return to the chess tournament, what has happened?

4. Wili notes that most of those attending the tournament where what?

5. What is Della Lu's specialization?

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