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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Wili and Paul say they need to create larger bobbles?
(a) More time, at least a year.
(b) Help from the other Tinkers.
(c) More power.
(d) Uranium.

2. What device does Wili find hidden among his possessions after he leaves Kaladze's camp?
(a) A tracking device.
(b) An emergency beacon.
(c) An unidentifiable device that must have come from Paul.
(d) A small recording device.

3. What does Avery say the Tinkers would need to create their own bobbles?
(a) A supercomputer.
(b) A nuclear reactor.
(c) A nuclear weapon.
(d) Access to space.

4. As he works to complete the attack on the Authority bobble generator, Wili is torn by what desire?
(a) The desire for Jill's help.
(b) The desire to take control of the Authority himself.
(c) The desire for revenge on the Authority.
(d) The desire to check on Paul's condition.

5. What force drives the floating bobble of the tenement building inland?
(a) A device that Wili created.
(b) A low-pressure system.
(c) Sea winds.
(d) A storm.

6. What does Della urge Avery to do in reaction to the disturbance at the road block?
(a) Bobble the entire area.
(b) Send reinforcements.
(c) Nuke the entire area.
(d) Launch an artillery strike.

7. What false information has Wili been feeding to the Authority?
(a) False images.
(b) False Tinker communications.
(c) False intelligence reports.
(d) False radio transmissions.

8. When does Allison recognize Paul?
(a) Immediately.
(b) When Wili addresses him by name.
(c) The second night in his home.
(d) When she sees an old photo of him.

9. What does Paul think about Wili's capabilities before he interfaces with the computer?
(a) They are equal to his own.
(b) They are underdeveloped.
(c) They are less than he expected.
(d) They are dangerous.

10. What is Kaladze's group waiting for?
(a) The arrival of allies.
(b) The arrival of Spring.
(c) Paul's new device to be completed.
(d) The collapse of a nearby bobble.

11. Avery's fall back plan is codenamed what?
(a) Vengeance.
(b) Brimstone.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Gehenna.

12. How does Allison force Wili to reveal how he knows her?
(a) By threatening him.
(b) By appealing to his emotions.
(c) By tricking him.
(d) By physically assaulting him.

13. What does Wili do as part of his plan to help the hostages from the chess tournament?
(a) He embobbles their captors.
(b) He embobbles them.
(c) He alerts the Tinkers to their location.
(d) He organizes a raid to rescue them.

14. Why do the gangs around the embobbled tenement building help Wili?
(a) They were told that Paul wanted them to help Wili.
(b) He was once a member of one of the gangs.
(c) Wili promises them weapons in exchange for their help.
(d) Wili persuades them to resist the Authority.

15. What does Della think about her control over Mike after the ten days that Kaladze held them for?
(a) It is totally complete.
(b) It won't last much longer.
(c) It is not complete.
(d) It is growing in strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul fear about the new bobble generator?

2. When Paul and Wili return home to continue their work, they are aided by what group?

3. Instead of obeying Della's request with regards to Wili, what does Mike do?

4. Della suspects that what source of intelligence is being altered?

5. How long does Wili secretly know that the bobble around the tenement building will last?

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