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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the earpieces do?
(a) They keep the group in contact with ITC
(b) They are an oral compass and map
(c) They are radios and translators
(d) They are a locator beam to find the Professor

2. What does Sir Charles attempt on Marek in their battle?
(a) Killing him with a chest blow
(b) A fatal head shot
(c) Knocking him to the ground gently
(d) Just barely tapping him

3. Why does Chris leap off a cliff?
(a) It's the only way to get back to the machines
(b) He slips off the cliff inadvertently
(c) To save Kate
(d) He is being pursued by men who want to kill him

4. What does Marek say about the fire at the edge of town?
(a) It's a diversion
(b) It is a signal to troops on the North
(c) It is set accidentally and will soon be at the castle
(d) It means the town has fallen

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

6. Who saw the Professor arrive in the chapter “Castelgard”?
(a) Sir Guy
(b) Some woodcutters
(c) Sir Oliver
(d) Lady Claire

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

8. What does Chris say he is to Sir Daniel?
(a) A squire
(b) A messenger
(c) A scholar
(d) An accountant

9. About what does Kate worry?
(a) Her baby will be harmed
(b) Their bodies will not be reconstructed
(c) She will be unable to speak back to someone
(d) The Professor will be dead

10. How does Lady Claire think her husband died?
(a) Drowning
(b) A knife wound
(c) She has no idea
(d) Poison

11. What happens to Gomez?
(a) She instantly disappears
(b) She shrinks down and gets smaller and smaller until she disappears altogether
(c) She fades and then is gone
(d) Her image is always there, but she is gone corporeally

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

13. What is the purpose of the doors filled with water?
(a) To give a womblike environment
(b) Shielding
(c) Sound dampening
(d) To have water readily available in case of fire

14. For what does the boy thank Chris in the chapter “Castelgard”??
(a) Giving him some food
(b) Showing him the cliff
(c) Saving his life
(d) Not revealing his whereabouts

15. What are Doniger, Gordon and Kramer discussing as the group from Yale are waiting in another room?
(a) The qualities of the group's individuals
(b) Whether they should allow the younger people to go
(c) The need to notify the families' of the group
(d) The legalities of what they are about to do

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation horrifies Kate?

2. What is Doniger's response about Stern's question concerning time paradox?

3. Where does the Professor say the others should meet him?

4. How does Kate get into the hallway where the others are being held?

5. What does Marek say when Chris decides not to make the trip?

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