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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing the Introduction mentions that scientists could not have conceived of at the beginning of the 20th Century?
(a) A cotton gin
(b) Electrical lights
(c) The equality of blacks in the culture
(d) Women's voting rights

2. What is unique about Marek's language knowledge?
(a) He can speak as well as read the languages of the European Middle Ages
(b) He can read texts that are written in heretofore unknown dialects
(c) He is very good at distinguishing meanings of a word that has several nuances
(d) He can instantly translate texts into modern English

3. What does the Professor insist upon doing with Kramer?
(a) Walking the site
(b) Going over the site plans
(c) Looking at the budget and time frames
(d) Flying back to the ITC headquarters

4. Why do the orderlies strap the man down at the hospital?
(a) He becomes agitated
(b) The police want him for questioning
(c) They have to do surgery
(d) He keeps rolling off the stretcher

5. Why is Chris shocked when David stumbles in the woods?
(a) David breaks his arm
(b) David falls in a well
(c) He reveals the foundation of a tower just where Kramer said it was
(d) David falls into a snake nest

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of Chris Hughes' doctoral dissertation?

2. Who takes responsibility for notifying ITC of the death of the old man?

3. To what area of the woods do Chris and David go?

4. What does Dan notice about the man's body temperature?

5. What does Louise Delvert say that alarms Professor Johnston?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indications are there that ITC's luck with quantum research has failed?

2. Who helps Sir Oliver defend La Roque and what is said about him?

3. What is Chris' specialty in graduate school?

4. What is the quintain, and what is its purpose?

5. What is Marek like as a medieval historian?

6. What does quantum technology make possible?

7. How do Chris and Stern inadvertently find a tower foundation, and how does Chris react?

8. What does Doniger order Gordon to have a security officer do?

9. Of what does Gordon have to remind himself about his difficult boss, Doniger?

10. What does Kramer pressure the Professor to do?

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