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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 unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?
(a) Bedlovian coins.
(b) Half-pluton coins.
(c) Luna dollars.
(d) Terra half-dollars.

2. What does Jack use as an alarm, to warn of intruders in the shelter?
(a) Water at the entrance.
(b) A small fire at the entrance.
(c) Dry branches of thorn bush, draped across the entrance.
(d) Gravel in the entrance.

3. What is the religion of the Walker family?
(a) New Baptist.
(b) Evangelical Monist.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Lunism.

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

5. Why does Rod's instructor try to discourage him from taking the final exam?
(a) He wants Rod to stay home with his family.
(b) He believes Rod is too emotional and sentimental to be a survivor.
(c) He wants Rod to take the class again before attempting the final exam.
(d) He believes Rod is too cocky and unfeeling to be a survivor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Rod's school located?

2. Where does Rod conceal his sister's knife, in preparation for the final exam?

3. What is the planned duration of Rod's survival test?

4. How much meat does Jack want to take, when the two are ready to part ways?

5. What is the name of Rod's school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the "marching hordes" seen by Rod in Emigrants' Gap.

7. Which students does Rod consider taking as a partner for his final exam, and why does he ultimately reject each?

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

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

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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