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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. What is Helen's nickname for Rod?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Pater.
(c) Ruddy.
(d) Deacon.

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

3. At the beginning of Chapter 6, Rod jokes that Jack is jealous of what?
(a) His manly beard.
(b) His hunting skill.
(c) His athletic abilities.
(d) His logical mind.

4. What hunting technique do Rod and Jack develop in Chapter 7?
(a) Jack drives and Rod kills.
(b) They creep, holding a big net between them.
(c) Rod drives and Jack kills.
(d) They take turns chasing and wearing out the animal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school does Jack, the student Rod encounters in Chapter 4 while hunting, attend?

2. In Chapter 2, what sort of lamp does Mr. Walker light before dinner?

3. One of the two new arrivals at the end of Chapter 7 has what injury?

4. How do Rod and Jack break the fever of the person they discovered in a tree in Chapter 6?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Chapter 6 titled, "I Think He's Dead?"

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

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

4. How does Rod first encounter a student worthy of partnership?

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

6. What strange sound prevents Rod from sleeping comfortably during his first night on the unknown planet?

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

8. Describe the invention of Dr. Jesse Evelyn Ramsbotham, as compared with the item he intended to invent.

9. Who does the "dead" student in the tree turn out to be?

10. What sort of test does the main character, Rod Walker, contemplate taking at the beginning of "Tunnel in the Sky," and what is his reaction to learning that the test is eminent?

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