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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does Alexander burn?
(a) Rome.
(b) Troy.
(c) Athens.
(d) Persepolis.

2. What does Bisesa say Casey broke?
(a) His tibia.
(b) His femur.
(c) His humerus.
(d) His collarbone.

3. What could the cosmonauts smell?
(a) Saline.
(b) Pollen.
(c) Polin.
(d) Salt.

4. Who is not troubled by being confined?
(a) Sable.
(b) Musa.
(c) Seeker.
(d) Grasper.

5. Who holds the gun on the three strangers?
(a) Batson.
(b) Josh.
(c) Ruddy.
(d) McKnight.

6. Who or what is Ruddy?
(a) A drug addict.
(b) Rudyard Kipling.
(c) A personable fellow.
(d) A real jerk.

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

8. What animal lies dead not far away from Seeker?
(a) A lemur.
(b) A deer.
(c) An ape.
(d) An antelope.

9. How many of the twenty troopers are Indian?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twelve.

10. Who is Alexander's prophet?
(a) Alemsander.
(b) Aristander.
(c) Grigoris.
(d) Alexskis.

11. What is the good thing about the elasticized trousers?
(a) They keep his body safe from the difference in atmospheric pressure.
(b) All of these.
(c) They keep him from wetting himself.
(d) They keep blood in his head between weightlessness and gravity.

12. What is strange about the surface of the Earth?
(a) It was dappled.
(b) None of these.
(c) It flickered in and out of view.
(d) It looked like a patchwork quilt.

13. What does the rain taste like?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fresh.
(c) Salty.
(d) Earthy.

14. Which volcano's explosion is the worst?
(a) Mt. St. Helens.
(b) Mt. Baker.
(c) Mt. Rainier.
(d) Mt. Kilauea.

15. What has attacked Khan?
(a) A saber-toothed tiger.
(b) A cave bear.
(c) A saiga antelope.
(d) A mammoth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second most dangerous part of a space mission?

2. What does Ruddy and his sister play in order to comfort each other?

3. Who is it that Sable and Kolya meet at the end of chapter twenty?

4. What two things are not returned to Bisesa and her crew?

5. How many sneezes did Kolya suffer in a single hour the day before?

(see the answer keys)

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