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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Early in Chapter 6, what does Rod accuse Jack of stealing?
(a) His vest and shirt.
(b) His salt.
(c) Lady Macbeth.
(d) Colonel Bowie.

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

4. Early in Chapter 4, Rod is no longer interested in the survival exam, but instead interested in what?
(a) Determining what planet he is on.
(b) Being with his family.
(c) Survival.
(d) Discovering stobor.

5. 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) Surrender his gun.
(c) Cry wolf.
(d) Cry pax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the instructor for Rod's survival course?

2. Who do Rod and Jack discover in a tree in Chapter 6?

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

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

5. What is the name of Helen's knife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Chapter 2 titled, "The Fifth Way?"

2. List several ways in which the futuristic Earth of "Tunnel in the Sky" differs from our present-day planet.

3. Where does Rod believe he and the other students have been abandoned?

4. Why do Rod, Jack, and Jimmy decide to signal other students to join their group?

5. What advice does Deacon Matson give Rod, regarding the final exam?

6. Who does Rod finally agree to partner with, before traveling through the gate to an unknown planet?

7. Why does Deacon Matson fail several students before they even start their final exam?

8. Why has Rod's sister, Helen, returned home to be with the family in Chapter 2?

9. What shocking secret does Jimmy reveal to Rod, regarding Jack?

10. Where has Rod's new partner, Jack, been sleeping?

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