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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Ramsbotham's invention allow people to do?
(a) By using special viewers, people can experience virtual travel.
(b) By allowing themselves to be frozen, people can wait for terminal illnesses to be curable.
(c) By stepping through a gate, people can travel through time.
(d) By stepping through a gate, people can be transported hundreds or thousands of miles in seconds.

2. What, according to the author in Chapter 4, is the first law of hunting sportsmanship?
(a) Once an animal is killed, all parts should be used.
(b) When an animal is killed, part should be left behind for other predators to eat.
(c) A wounded animal must be tracked down and finished, not left to suffer.
(d) A baby animal should never be hunted.

3. When Rod pins down the boy who butchered the animal he was hunting, what does he ask the boy to do?
(a) Surrender his knife.
(b) Cry wolf.
(c) Cry pax.
(d) Surrender his gun.

4. What rare treat does Jack share with Rod during their first meal together?
(a) Oregano.
(b) Salt.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Sugar.

5. What is the name of Jack's personal knife?
(a) Bluebeard.
(b) Lady Macbeth.
(c) Colonel Bowie.
(d) Jack Sparrow.

6. Why does Rod arrive late for his final exam?
(a) He had written down the time incorrectly.
(b) He considered dropping the class.
(c) His parents tried to prevent his departure.
(d) He overslept.

7. What does Rod eat for dinner his first night on the unknown planet?
(a) A handful of berries.
(b) A brick of field ration.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A pack of jerky.

8. What was Dr. Ramsbotham trying to invent when he made his greatest discovery?
(a) A virtual travel viewer.
(b) A transport tunnel.
(c) A cure for cancer.
(d) A time machine.

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

10. In Chapter 7, why do Rod, Jack, and Jimmy decide to start a signal fire?
(a) To frighten animals.
(b) To attract animals to kill.
(c) To warn other survivors to stay away.
(d) To attract other survivors.

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

12. Which student chooses number two in the drawing, for entering the gate to the unknown planet?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Bob.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Johann.

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

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

15. Where does Rod's new friend, Jack, live?
(a) In a cave.
(b) In a tree.
(c) In the brush.
(d) In an underground burrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Early in Chapter 4, Rod is no longer interested in the survival exam, but instead interested in what?

2. In what condition is the first classmate Rod sees on the unknown planet?

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

4. What item does Deacon Matson assure Rod he can leave behind, because he will not need it for the final exam?

5. After Rod is hit over the head and robbed in Chapter 3, what items does he have left?

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