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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gomez do with the extra nav marker?
(a) Gives it to Marek
(b) Files it away for future reference
(c) Burns it
(d) Re-charges it

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

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) He is being pursued by men who want to kill him
(d) To save Kate

4. How do the others react to the idea of going after the professor?
(a) They are thrilled
(b) They do not believe what Doniger has told them
(c) They are afraid
(d) They are hesitant

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

6. What does Kramer suggest was psychologically wrong with Traub?
(a) He was suicidal
(b) He was neurotic
(c) He was paranoid
(d) He was bi-polar

7. Who is the Magister?
(a) Sir Guy's brother
(b) The Professor
(c) Lady Claire's uncle
(d) Sir Daniel's brother

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

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

10. What does Sir Oliver want to do?
(a) Kill the Professor
(b) Claim more land
(c) Marry Lady Claire
(d) Move to La Roque

11. Where does Kate follow Chris and Marek?
(a) To Sir Oliver's war room
(b) To the bridge, where they are told to leave the area
(c) To the dungeon
(d) To the tower

12. What does it mean when Chris picks up Sir Guy's glove?
(a) Chris is indicating his agreement to fight Sir Guy
(b) Chris admits he was wrong
(c) Chris refuses to pick up the glove
(d) Chris is a peasant

13. What is sent to other universes to enable one to travel there?
(a) Nothing is sent
(b) The information making up a person's physical being
(c) A refractory beam
(d) A wave of quarks holding instructions

14. Where is the spare nav marker in the chapter “Castelgard”??
(a) In Gomezs
(b) In Gomez's dress pocket
(c) There is none
(d) Under Gomez's wig

15. How does the Professor communicate as he is led off in the chapter “Castelgard”??
(a) With hand signals
(b) In German
(c) In French
(d) In a singsong voice to imitate prayer

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kate have to wear a wig?

2. Why might the field bucks sometimes show that a person is returning even before the person leaves?

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

4. What is the purpose of the doors filled with water?

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

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