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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Fifth Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?
(a) Luna dollars.
(b) Half-pluton coins.
(c) Terra half-dollars.
(d) Bedlovian coins.

2. Why does Rod's friend consider dropping out of the survival course?
(a) His family has financial difficulties.
(b) He is afraid.
(c) He plans to change schools.
(d) He has the flu.

3. Why doesn't Rod's father want Rod to leave for his final exam?
(a) He plans to have himself and Rod's mother frozen for thirty years.
(b) He plans to have the whole Walker family frozen for twenty years.
(c) He plans to have himself and Rod's mother frozen for twenty years.
(d) He plans to have himself frozen for thirty years.

4. What does Rod's sister call their father?
(a) Pater.
(b) Father Walker.
(c) Dad.
(d) Roderick.

5. What is the name of Rod's knife?
(a) Lady Macbeth.
(b) Mack the Knife.
(c) Colonel Bowie.
(d) Bluebeard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helen's nickname for Rod?

2. What, according to Rod's instructor, is the most dangerous animal known?

3. Why has Rod's father made such an unusual decision, as described in Chapter 2?

4. What does Dr. Ramsbotham's invention allow people to do?

5. What was Dr. Ramsbotham trying to invent when he made his greatest discovery?

(see the answer key)

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