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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kolya say to Musa's killer?
(a) That they are angels sent to help them.
(b) That they stink and their breath is horrible.
(c) That they are emissaries of eternal heaven.
(d) That they are angry emissaries.

2. What does Kolya want?
(a) None of these.
(b) To be able to guide the ship home.
(c) To see his children and wife again.
(d) To be able to leave the ship when he set down.

3. What is the Pashtun code of honor called?
(a) Nuzzoo-watto.
(b) Khybur.
(c) Jezails.
(d) Pakhtunwali.

4. What does Ruddy not complain about?
(a) His feet.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His back.
(d) His eyes.

5. What do the Mongols do in their saddles?
(a) All of these.
(b) Eat.
(c) Go to the bathroom.
(d) Sleep.

6. What is lacking on the site that Bisesa had crash landed on?
(a) Radio antennas.
(b) Motor vehicles.
(c) All of these.
(d) Satellite dishes.

7. How many centuries away is Bisesa from home?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

8. What do the Oikumens hope to do?
(a) Banish religions.
(b) Diversify religions.
(c) None of these.
(d) Unify religions.

9. Who is Abdi related to?
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Alexander the Great.
(c) Hephaistion.
(d) None of these.

10. What does Rudy suggest that Josh and Bisesa could do?
(a) Sleep together.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Have children.
(d) Hug.

11. What gratifies Bisesa when she replies to the order to strip?
(a) The look of genuine shock on McKnight's face.
(b) The look of contempt on McKnight's face.
(c) None of these.
(d) The look of pity on McKnight's face.

12. What does Sable salvage from the garbage?
(a) The ham radio, as it could be useful after landing.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) The drop package.
(d) Both of these.

13. What is unchanged about the Earths' surface?
(a) The locations of the forests.
(b) The human habitation.
(c) The bodies of water.
(d) The geography.

14. What does Bisesa try and explain to the people of 1885?
(a) A chronological protection conjecture.
(b) Both of these.
(c) A chronology protection conjecture.
(d) Neither of these.

15. What are both Ruddy and Josh?
(a) Writers.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Reporters.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the soldiers use to soften boot leather?

2. Who is there a lot of tension between?

3. What gun is found by the group?

4. What space shuttle does Kolya remember?

5. What is the tablet called that allows Bisesa to sleep for ten hours?

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