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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. What is the Cantos?
(a) A song.
(b) A map.
(c) A hymn of praise.
(d) An epic poem.

2. What happens to Raul in Chapter 10?
(a) He grows dehydrated.
(b) He becomes incarcerated.
(c) He passes his kidney stone.
(d) He is still ill.

3. Who tells Raul that they can infect humanity with a vision of its future?
(a) Aenea.
(b) Nemes.
(c) Isosaki.
(d) God.

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

5. What begins in Chapter 9?
(a) The flight of Raul.
(b) The Pax raids.
(c) Old Earth's transition.
(d) The fight of Raul and Lock Childe Lamonde.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is DeSoya's new outpost located?

2. According to Albedo's claim, who is responsible for placing the non-Christians into stasis?

3. What river does Raul paddle down in Chapter 6 through the Arch of the West?

4. What is the community celebrating that will be used as a distraction for Raul's escape from Lock Childe Lamonde?

5. For how many years is the person whom Mustafa and Farrell torture incarcerated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Task Force GIDEON?

2. Describe Raul and Aenea's dream conversations in Chapter 8.

3. What is the Shrike?

4. What is needed to make the cruciforms work properly?

5. Why is Corporal Bassin Kee tortured in Chapter 3?

6. What happens as Raul enters the farcaster?

7. Describe what Raul calculates in Chapter 16.

8. What does Aenea describe to Raul once they arrive in Hannibal, Missouri?

9. How is Isosaki's group, Pax Mercantilus, demonstrative of a writing flaw in Simmon's writing?

10. What happens to Raul in Lock Childe Lamonde?

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