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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Civilization, Chapter 15, In Achilles' Tent, and Chapter 16, The Endless Road.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During an evening meeting in Chapter 10, who stands up and demands information regarding a constitution and bill of rights?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Rod.
(d) Shorty.

2. Why does Rod insist, at the end of Chapter 13, that the students should stay put rather than move their settlement?
(a) Rod realizes that the cave settlement would be more dangerous to live in than their current settlement.
(b) In honor of Grant, they should refuse to be driven away by dirty little beasts.
(c) In honor of Grant, they should domesticate the dopey joes.
(d) Rod is concerned that women and babies would not survive a move.

3. In Chapter 10, what position does Grant ask Rod to assume after Rod insists that changes must be made?
(a) Chief of police.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Historian.
(d) Assistant administrator.

4. Who does Jack decide to marry?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Rod.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Grant.

5. What information finally convinces Rod to return home in Chapter 15?
(a) If he does not leave now, there will be no gate in the future.
(b) Rod's parents are getting a divorce.
(c) His father is about to die.
(d) His parents are no longer frozen, and his father has been cured.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Emigrants' Gap, Rod watches emigrants from the Australasian Republic being sent to a destination planet known as what?

2. Which member of the settlement is an aspiring medical student?

3. At the end of Chapter 10, what two students plan to marry according to Grant?

4. What is the planned duration of Rod's survival test?

5. What sort of outerwear does Rod plan to take with him, for the survival test?

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