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

2. Where is Rod's family home?
(a) A neighborhood in New York.
(b) A neighborhood in the Outlands.
(c) A suburb on the Grand Canyon.
(d) A suburb on Luna.

3. What two people arrive near the end of Chapter 7, joining the original three in their new settlement?
(a) Johann and Caroline.
(b) Bob and Carmen.
(c) Bob and Caroline.
(d) Johann and Carmen.

4. At Emigrants' Gap, Rod watches emigrants from the Australasian Republic being sent to a destination planet known as what?
(a) Liberty Canyon.
(b) Terra.
(c) Luna.
(d) Heavenly Mountains.

5. Once through the gate to the unknown planet, who is the first classmate Rod sees?
(a) Bob.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Johann.

6. What, according to Rod's instructor, is the most dangerous animal known?
(a) Man.
(b) An alien.
(c) The snow ape.
(d) The leopard.

7. In what condition is the first classmate Rod sees on the unknown planet?
(a) Frightened, hiding in a tree.
(b) Dead, along with another student.
(c) Dead, along with his dog.
(d) Wounded, along with his dog.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 4, why does Rod believe he missed the recall signal to go to the exit gate?
(a) He had been unconscious sometimes, laying in a tree, while his arm healed.
(b) He might have been asleep.
(c) He might have miscalculated the direction of sunrise.
(d) His ears were stopped up after swimming in the river.

9. Rod and Jack eat what sort of meat, when they first meet?
(a) Raw rabbit.
(b) Roasted duck.
(c) Raw buck.
(d) Roasted buck.

10. What revelation does Jimmy make at the end of Chapter 6 regarding Jack that shocks Rod?
(a) Jack is a college student.
(b) Jack is a girl.
(c) Jack is Jimmy's cousin.
(d) Jack stole Rod's knife.

11. On the unknown planet, from which direction does the sun rise?
(a) Northwest.
(b) Southeast.
(c) North.
(d) East.

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

13. After Rod is hit over the head and robbed in Chapter 3, what items does he have left?
(a) His shorts, his knife, and field rations.
(b) His shorts and his sister's knife.
(c) His knife, his sister's knife, and a canteen.
(d) His shorts.

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

15. What school does Jack, the student Rod encounters in Chapter 4 while hunting, attend?
(a) Ponce de Leon Institute.
(b) Teller University.
(c) Paul Revere High School.
(d) Patrick Henry High School.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rod is frightened by noises during his first night on the unknown planet, what does he try to do?

2. What hunting technique do Rod and Jack develop in Chapter 7?

3. What sort of gun does Rod obtain from the school armorer, prior to leaving Earth for his final exam?

4. Before Rod leaves for his exam, Helen reminds him that more people have died from what than from bleeding to death?

5. What unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?

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