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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. 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) Survival.
(c) Discovering stobor.
(d) Being with his family.

2. What trick does Jack use before entering the shelter, to ensure no animals are lurking within?
(a) Shouting.
(b) Throwing gravel inside.
(c) Throwing a flaming branch inside.
(d) Throwing thorn bush branches inside.

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

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

5. What is the planned duration of Rod's survival test?
(a) Three to twelve weeks.
(b) Three to twelve days.
(c) Two to ten days.
(d) Two to ten weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one of the new arrivals burst into tears when arriving at the shelter at the end of Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 45 what planet does Rod believe he and Jack are living on?

3. Where is Rod's family home?

4. What is the name of Jack's personal knife?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. At the end of Chapter 7, who joins Rod, Jack, and Jimmy in their cave settlement?

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

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