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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marek do in the Professor's room after the note they find at a site?
(a) Compare bifocals
(b) Try to find a handwriting sample
(c) Nothing; he does not invade the Professor's privacy
(d) Checks out the paper the Professor has

2. Where in Europe is a reporter nosing into ITC projects?
(a) France
(b) Belgium
(c) England
(d) Germany

3. Who is Richard Feynman?
(a) A doctor who is suspicious of Traub's death
(b) A physicist who postulated about quantum computers
(c) Traub's brother-in-law who is suspicious about Traub's death
(d) An investigator with the FBI

4. About what does the old man rave?
(a) Quantum leaps
(b) Quantum foam
(c) Explosives
(d) Sir Oliver

5. What caused Chris' grades to drop at one time during his school career?
(a) His devastation at the death of his parents
(b) His interest in sports
(c) His alcoholism
(d) His philandering

6. Why does Sophie leave Chris to take care of her horse?
(a) She stays to help Kate
(b) The horse bucks and she is too frightened to go further
(c) She is injured
(d) She goes off with another man

7. How is Arnaut successful in bringing down the fortress?
(a) The plague strikes the people in the fortress
(b) Help from a traitor from the inside
(c) He is not successful
(d) Help from a man who has traveled back in time

8. What is the man wearing that lies beside the road where Dan and Liz are driving?
(a) Navajo ceremonial dress
(b) Nothing
(c) Robes like a monk
(d) A suit and tie

9. What is the subject of Chris Hughes' doctoral dissertation?
(a) Medieval water mills
(b) The impact of the bubonic plague on wars
(c) Fabrics of the middle ages
(d) The use of hoisting technology in sieges in the Middle Ages

10. For what does Marek use a quintain he designed?
(a) Reading fine inscriptions
(b) Practice jousting
(c) Practice with the broadsword
(d) Getting on his horse while in armor

11. Where is Katherine Erickson studying?
(a) Duke
(b) MIT
(c) Oxford
(d) Yale

12. Why should Traub not have made his final trip?
(a) He refused to wear the tracer
(b) His body had not recovered from his last trip
(c) He accumulated too many transcription errors
(d) He was ill with cancer

13. Upon what is Liz intent to acquire?
(a) An authentic Navajo weaving
(b) An authentic Kachina rattle
(c) A new ceremonial dru
(d) A sample of a meteorite that hit near there

14. What does Tsosie order the nurse to do concerning the new patient?
(a) Start an IV
(b) Take a blood sample
(c) Get him to xray
(d) Get some warming blankets on him

15. On what project is Chris Hughes working?
(a) Collecting and analyzing bones at the site
(b) The reconstruction of the water mill
(c) Analyzing fabric at the site
(d) The reconstruction of several small homes from the 1300s

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elsie Kastner's job at the site?

2. Who annoys Chris at dinner in Sarlat?

3. What had been established by the mid-1990s concerning Quantum technology?

4. Who calls Marek's cell phone?

5. What does Marek suggest when it's obvious everyone at the site is upset?

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