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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aenea tell Raul about the missing months he calculates?
(a) They are unnecessary to worry about.
(b) They are very important.
(c) They are of mystery.
(d) She will discuss it with him later.

2. What is the community celebrating that will be used as a distraction for Raul's escape from Lock Childe Lamonde?
(a) The full moon.
(b) The lunar eclipse.
(c) The waxing moon.
(d) The double eclipse.

3. Cardinal DuNoyer is in charge of ___________.
(a) Core Unum.
(b) Cor Unu.
(c) Corp Unm.
(d) Cor Unum.

4. What is the name of the compound created for architectural students called?
(a) Talisein East.
(b) Tahiti Miti.
(c) Tahitian West.
(d) Taliesin West.

5. What is A. Bettik?
(a) A meteor.
(b) An orbit.
(c) An asteroid.
(d) A comet.

6. What is DeSoya given command of in Chapter 3?
(a) A new ship called the Raphael.
(b) A new ship called the DaVinci.
(c) A new cyborg,
(d) A new Church world.

7. Whom do Nemes and her assassin siblings meet upon arrival to the planet?
(a) Ambassador DeSoya.
(b) Ambassador Albedo.
(c) Ambassador Aenea.
(d) Ambassador Albe.

8. Who orders the actions for the bodies to be moved into Stasis?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Raul.
(c) Aenea.
(d) DeSoya.

9. What is Hsuan-k'ung Ssu?
(a) A temple.
(b) A religious priest.
(c) A border.
(d) A tree.

10. Where does the drop ship take its travelers in Chapter 4?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Hannibal, Missouri.
(c) Hannau, Germany.
(d) Hannibal, Mississippi.

11. What is Raul told that Aenea requested he hide in orbit on a nearby moon?
(a) The Shrike.
(b) Himself.
(c) A. Bettik.
(d) The ship.

12. What does Simmons spend a great deal of time describing in Chapter 16?
(a) T'ien Shan.
(b) Aenea.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Temple Hanging in the Air.

13. What are the ship captains shown pictures of that they will be destroying?
(a) The Consul's plane.
(b) The Consul's ship.
(c) The Consul's yacht.
(d) The Consul's house.

14. Who appears to be working in partnership against non-Christians?
(a) The Pope and the Pax.
(b) The Core and the Pax.
(c) The Core and the Shrike.
(d) The Core and the Pope.

15. Who is the leader of the Pax Mecantilus?
(a) Isosaki Kenzi.
(b) Kenzo Amore.
(c) Kenzo Isosaki.
(d) Kenzi Isosak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who travels on the drop ship to Old Earth?

2. How many times has Pope Julius XIV died according to Chapter 1?

3. Who assigns DeSoya to a different outpost?

4. Who awakens Raul to inform him they just arrived on a drop ship in Chapter 10?

5. Where does the secret passage Raul takes with the Pax security lead?

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