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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the time of the novel, what exists where the Statue of Liberty once stood?
(a) Bedford-Stuyvestant Gap.
(b) Bedlow Gap.
(c) Bedlow Crater.
(d) Bedford-Stuyvestant Crater.

3. Rod's friend jokes that their survival instructor would eat what, without salt?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A snow ape.
(c) His own grandmother.
(d) Another human being.

4. What is the religion of the Walker family?
(a) New Baptist.
(b) Quaker.
(c) Evangelical Monist.
(d) Lunism.

5. How much meat does Jack want to take, when the two are ready to part ways?
(a) A haunch and a chunk of liver.
(b) The brain and the liver.
(c) The belly and a haunch.
(d) A haunch and part of the brain.

6. Why does one of the new arrivals burst into tears when arriving at the shelter at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) She is relieved to be rescued from her overbearing partner.
(b) She feels safe at last.
(c) She is happy to see another girl.
(d) She is hungry and smells roasted meat.

7. What sort of outerwear does Rod plan to take with him, for the survival test?
(a) Dress armor with gauntlets.
(b) A chlorine-resistant scuba suit.
(c) A combat parka suit.
(d) A space suit.

8. Why has Rod's father made such an unusual decision, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Rod's mother is dying, and he hopes a cure will be found while she is frozen.
(b) Rod's father is bankrupt, and he hopes his finances will improve while he is frozen.
(c) Rod's father believes that being frozen is a vital religious ritual.
(d) Rod's father is dying, and he hopes a cure will be found while he is frozen.

9. In Chapter 1, how does Rod describe his classmate, Caroline?
(a) A quiet girl, engaged to be married.
(b) Too skittish to survive in unknown surroundings.
(c) Dim-witted and unprepared.
(d) A big Zulu girl.

10. 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 frozen for thirty years.
(d) He plans to have himself and Rod's mother frozen for twenty years.

11. In Chapter 7, Jack asks Rod to abandon being logical in favor of being what?
(a) Practical.
(b) Relaxed.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Realistic.

12. What is wrong with Rod and Jack's attempts to find quality human partners according to Jimmy in Chapter 7?
(a) Other survivors might be girls.
(b) The skilled survivors will hear them coming and stay out of sight.
(c) There are no other survivors.
(d) Other survivors would only steal their supplies.

13. What item does Deacon Matson assure Rod he can leave behind, because he will not need it for the final exam?
(a) His vacuum suit.
(b) His canteen.
(c) His gun.
(d) His snow suit.

14. Which of the original three survivors loses most often at their nightly games?
(a) The three are evenly matched.
(b) Jack.
(c) Rod.
(d) Jimmy.

15. After finishing school, Rod hopes to travel where?
(a) The Heavenly Mountains.
(b) The Australasian Republic.
(c) Luna.
(d) The Outlands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Deacon Matson flunk four students before the exam begins?

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

3. In Chapter 4, what sort of animal comes up behind Jack while the two are sharing their meal?

4. How does the air pressure of the Grand Canyon plateau compare with that of New Jersey?

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

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