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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is happening in Castelgard on the day the Yale team will arrive?
(a) A hanging
(b) A fair
(c) A tournament
(d) A religious holiday

2. What does Kramer forbid Baretto from taking with him?
(a) Tear gas
(b) His own knives
(c) Pictures
(d) Guns

3. Why is Lady Claire reluctant to flee the castle and return to England?
(a) Her people will be killed
(b) The winter weather has set in
(c) Her son is being held hostage
(d) The seer has said she must meet someone at Castelgard

4. 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 said ITC has built in protections for that
(c) He says that if they are going back further than fifty years, it is not a problem
(d) He dismisses it as a trivial matter

5. For how long is a nav marker useable?
(a) Four days
(b) Thirty-seven hours
(c) One week
(d) Indefinitely

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

7. Why does Chris groan when the team is in a secret passageway?
(a) He broke his wrist in the fall
(b) He sees Lady Claire kissing Sir Guy
(c) He ate some bad food
(d) He is badly bruised from the joust

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

9. How does Kate get into the hallway where the others are being held?
(a) Climbing out a window and up a wall
(b) Using a red cube on a guard
(c) Asking Lady Claire's assistance
(d) Charming a guard

10. What does Chris learn when they enter a suite of rooms?
(a) The boy is Lady Claire's brother
(b) Lady Claire has been kidnapped
(c) The boy who saved Chris is a woman
(d) The boy is Lady Claire's son

11. 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 time in the other universe is just a few seconds ahead of time in this universe
(c) When there is a malfunction in the permutations
(d) They have not figured out why that happens sometimes

12. What is Stern shocked to realized about ITC's technology?
(a) They have developed a quantum computer
(b) They have circumvented using computers at all
(c) That ITC's technology is incomprehensible to him
(d) They have tapped into the world's computers' systems

13. What do Marek and the others have done at a level above the transit room?
(a) Their bodies scanned
(b) They are super-hydrated
(c) Medical vital signs are taken
(d) They are given routing vaccines

14. Where is the transit site for the Yale team?
(a) Just to the east of the tower
(b) On the north side of the Dordogne
(c) They cannot pinpoint the site with any certainty
(d) On the south each of Castelgard

15. How many typical computers are required for travel to other universes?
(a) 32 billion
(b) 200,000
(c) 1 million
(d) 1 billion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who saw the Professor arrive in the chapter “Castelgard”?

3. What do the earpieces do?

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

5. For what are the three red paper cubes?

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