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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. How does Salo kill himself?
(a) Salo ingests the ship's fuel.
(b) Salo dismantles himself.
(c) Salo drowns himself.
(d) Salo uses Chrono's knife.

2. As Malachi and Beatrice are landing on Titan, why is Rumfoord ill?
(a) The chrono-synclasticinfundibulum has reached its life expectancy.
(b) The center of his time-space spiral is about to be blown.
(c) The Titan food has upset his stomach.
(d) Rumfoord has been away from Earth for too long.

3. What attracts the harmoniums to Boaz?
(a) His door.
(b) His food.
(c) His singing.
(d) His pulse.

4. What has Boaz taken from the space ship to use in his cave home?
(a) A bed.
(b) A tape player.
(c) A place setting.
(d) An outer door.

5. After taking off from Mercury, where does Unk's space ship land?
(a) In Rhode Island.
(b) On Titan.
(c) In Massachusetts.
(d) On Mars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the nearby church when Unk's space ship lands in "An Age of Miracles"?

2. What is Bee's new occupation?

3. After leaving Mars and flying through space, where does Boaz and Unk's ship land?

4. Where is Winston Rumfoord permanently materialized?

5. How do harmoniums reproduce?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Unk looks out the space ship's window, he sees a message. What does the message say?

2. What makes Bee different from all of the other souvenir sellers that came from Mars?

3. Contrast Boaz's living arrangements with Unk's living arrangements while the two men are stranded on Mercury.

4. What is the "taste of hell" that the Martian commandos rain down on Earth?

5. Why do the harmoniums continue to leave messages in the cave for Unk and Boaz?

6. When the crowd of people on Earth gather around the newly landed space ship and ask Unk what his name is and what happened to him, how does Unk respond?

7. Why do the people crowded around Unk and his space ship cheer at Unk's answer to their question regarding what happened to him?

8. What purpose does Constant's journey from Earth to Mars to Mercury and back to Earth serve for Rumfoord?

9. What is Boaz and Unk's space ship programmed to do when the ship reaches its destination?

10. What is Boaz's philosophy on life?

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