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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many warriors accompany Genghis Khan?

2. What is the most beautiful woman's name?

3. What is in the ceramic cup?

4. How many days does Kolya need to wait?

5. Who is the notable exception regarding their eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ruddy volunteer to help Bisesa at the makeshift hospital? How does Ruddy actually like the job?

2. What kinds of things does the Eye compel Seeker and Grasper to do?

3. What is the punishment for Kolya's leak of information and how is this not supposed to be a fate worse than death?

4. What things does Bisesa retrieve from the Little Bird?

5. How do the soldiers look at Bisesa and why does she suspect they have started to look at her more often?

6. What does the Firstborn intend to do and why? What is the objective of the Discontinuity?

7. Why does Josh attempt to comfort Bisesa? What is he willing to do?

8. What does Kolya explain and what is the Mongol's reaction?

9. How does Kolya manage to stay alive and what is he going to do?

10. What does Ruddy seem intent upon doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What things would serve an individual the most being brought through time? Why? What kinds of problems does this book illustrate with one-way time travel?

Essay Topic 2

If you could time travel in one direction, to what time frame would you travel and why? What would be your purpose of traveling to that era of time?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the Firstborn's view of humanity. Why is it unlikely that they care about the affect of the Discontinuity on the residents of the planet? How does this play up to their view of the sanctity of life?

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