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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) Help from the other Tinkers.
(b) More time, at least a year.
(c) More power.
(d) Uranium.

2. Wili intentionally created the bobble around the buildings the hostages were held in at what time of the day?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Mid afternoon.

3. How does Della feel about her attack on the pass being foiled?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Frustrated.

4. Avery insists the Renaissance will be the end of what?
(a) The undesirables within society.
(b) Humanity as a whole.
(c) Free thought.
(d) The Tinkers.

5. How does Wili know how to safely navigate the dangerous neighborhood around the embobbled tenement building?
(a) Allison gave him advice about it.
(b) He was once a burglar there.
(c) He was trained by the factions.
(d) He studied maps and stories about the area.

6. Della gives Mike information about what?
(a) The Authority's military maneuvers.
(b) Avery's location.
(c) The location of the bobble generator.
(d) Operation Renaissance.

7. What does Allison discover about her comrades?
(a) Many of them are in bobbles.
(b) They were wiped out by the Authority's military.
(c) Most of them have joined the Authority.
(d) They have gone into hiding.

8. What does Jill urge Wili to do as the embobbling program nears completion?
(a) To embobble only Avery.
(b) To run from the approaching Authority agents.
(c) To embobble the entire enclave.
(d) To kill Della.

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

10. What does Paul think about Wili's capabilities after he interfaces with the computer?
(a) They will someday match his own.
(b) They far exceed his own.
(c) They are not as great as he'd imagined.
(d) They do not work well with the computer.

11. What relationship do Paul and Allison claim to have as part of the cover they use to travel to the Authority enclave?
(a) Father-daughter.
(b) Brother-sister.
(c) Husband-wife.
(d) Uncle-niece.

12. About how long has the Authority been in power?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) A hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

13. What does Paul think will happen to the bobbles in the coming years?
(a) They will continue to collapse.
(b) They will begin shrinking.
(c) They will all explode catastrophically.
(d) They will stop being used by the Authority.

14. What does Avery say Della has reported to him about Paul?
(a) He has gone mad.
(b) He is building his own bobble generator.
(c) He is planning an attack.
(d) He is creating new weapons for the Tinkers.

15. Mike contends he never wanted any harm to come to whom?
(a) Della.
(b) Paul.
(c) The bioscientists.
(d) The Tinkers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drags Paul from his damaged vehicle?

2. What does Wili ask Kaladze to do with Della and Mike?

3. What does Wili do as part of his plan to help the hostages from the chess tournament?

4. When Mike flees, what sort of vehicle does Della pursue him in?

5. How long does the Authority believe it has until the Tinker attack on the Authority?

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