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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. 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) A haunch and part of the brain.
(c) The brain and the liver.
(d) The belly and a haunch.

2. Why does Deacon Matson flunk four students before the exam begins?
(a) They had missed too many days of class.
(b) They planned to cheat.
(c) They tried to bribe him for a passing grade.
(d) They arrived with vacuum suits.

3. Why doesn't Rod want to allow girls to join his and Jack's team?
(a) Girls cry.
(b) It would lead to jealousy and fighting.
(c) It would lead to pairing off and separating.
(d) Girls are weaker.

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

5. Rod is informed that the exit gate from his final exam will be where?
(a) As much as thirty kilometers in the direction of sunrise.
(b) As much as twenty kilometers in the direction of sunset.
(c) As much as twenty kilometers in the direction of sunrise.
(d) As much as ten kilometers in the direction of sunset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of outerwear does Rod plan to take with him, for the survival test?

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

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

4. Once through the gate to the unknown planet, who is the first classmate Rod sees?

5. When Rod pins down the boy who butchered the animal he was hunting, what does he ask the boy to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What career field does Rod wish to pursue?

5. Why does Helen advise Rod not to carry a gun during his survival final exam on an unknown planet?

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

7. What grisly sight does Rod encounter, shortly after arriving alone on an unknown planet?

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

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

10. What major setback does Rod suffer at the conclusion of Chapter 3?

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