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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What enables ITC people to travel to other universes?
(a) Wormholes
(b) Changing the quarks by thought
(c) Disintegration and re-integration
(d) Fluid drift

2. What does the term “gentle” mean in the era in which the Yale team are?
(a) Nobility
(b) Eunuch
(c) Simple minded
(d) Kind

3. Who is Sir Guy de Malegant?
(a) The horseman chasing Chris
(b) One of Sir Oliver's knights
(c) One of the good knights
(d) The owner of Castelgard

4. By what are Kate and Marek surprised when they enter Castelgard?
(a) The open show of prostitutes
(b) The richness and light of the decor
(c) The good manners of those at the table
(d) The size of Sir Oliver

5. Where does the Professor say the others should meet him?
(a) In Sir Oliver's chambers
(b) In the green chapel
(c) In the woods
(d) At the monastery

6. How does Gordon answer most of Stern's questions?
(a) He tells Stern that his questions will be answered in a briefing that will occur shortly
(b) He has Gomez answer them
(c) He refers Stern to a manual
(d) He does not answer them

7. What concept does Stern explain to the group as they are traveling to ITC headquarters?
(a) Quantum foam
(b) Quarks as thought entities
(c) Waves as inversions of cosines
(d) Inter-dimensional sound

8. What is Doniger's response about Stern's question concerning time paradox?
(a) He says that the more primitive a culture is, the harder it is to create a paradox
(b) He says that if they are going back further than fifty years, it is not a problem
(c) He said ITC has built in protections for that
(d) He dismisses it as a trivial matter

9. Why might the field bucks sometimes show that a person is returning even before the person leaves?
(a) When there is a malfunction in the permutations
(b) When time in the other universe is just a few seconds ahead of time in this universe
(c) They have not figured out why that happens sometimes
(d) Because of the relativity of time

10. How does ITC think they can retrieve the Professor?
(a) Sending the Yale team after him
(b) They are not sure yet of the best approach to take
(c) Sending a coded message to him
(d) Sending just Marek to take the Professor a decoder

11. What is the message when Marek slaps Sir Guy on his head with the flat of the sword?
(a) To stop being dishonorable
(b) To go after Marek
(c) That Marek intends to defend Chris
(d) An insult

12. What social class is the medieval clothing Gordon gives the Yale team?
(a) Marek is going as a noble with his peasant retainers
(b) Noble
(c) Peasant
(d) Neither noble nor peasant

13. What does Marek tell Chris to do in the match?
(a) Use one of the red cubes
(b) Allow himself to be thrown from his horse
(c) Get the sun in Sir Guy's eyes
(d) Fight dirty

14. What does the spray can of ethylene dehydrate do?
(a) Creates a blinding fog
(b) Kills
(c) Blinds someone temporarily
(d) Renders someone unconscious

15. About what does Kate warn Marek and Chris?
(a) That soldiers are coming to kill them
(b) That Sir Oliver has ordered them to stand trial
(c) That de Kere is speaking against them
(d) That de Kere wants to sell them into slavery

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the tiny button on the marker the traveler carries?

2. What does Gordon advise Doniger to refrain from telling the Yale group?

3. Why does Chris leap off a cliff?

4. What do Marek and Kate find when searching Gomez?

5. What does Chris feel as the helmet is placed on his head?

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