Seveneves Quiz

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Why is Markus Leuker consumed with the idea of the Big Ride? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

To ensure he's immortalized as humankind's savior.

To distract him from despair over losing his family on Earth.

To prove its superiority over the other two options of "Dump and Run" and "Pure Swarm."

It's the only way to provide humankind with absolute shelter from space debris and radiation.

Why does space entrepreneur Sean Probst risk his and his crews' lives by embarking on the Ymir mission to capture comet "Greg's Skeleton"? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

To use the water supply as a bargaining tool.

The water will fuel his own Mars mission.

To establish a colony apart from the Cloud Ark.

If the mission succeeds, the comet will supply nearly limitless water from which to produce propellant and drinking water, something no government has thought of.

Why are the Red faction (descendants of those who broke away from the Cloud Ark) so solicitous of the Diggers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

They wish to reap the rewards and accolades for making first contact.

Because all Reds are descendants of Rufus MacQuarie.

To make up for destruction—via ocean floor strip-mining—wrought upon the Pingers (Old Earth undersea survivors, descended from nuclear submarine commander Cal Blankenship).

The Diggers have iron reserves much needed in habitat-ring construction.

What is the distinction between Kath Two's Survey team, and the other known as Snake Eaters? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Survey is forbidden contact with newly-seeded life. Snake Eaters monitor progress of ecosystems.

Kath Two's team are list-makers. Snake Eaters are tasked with weeding out dangerous life-forms.

Survey is an earth-science team. Snake Eaters are special-ops military.

Survey measures landscapes for future habitats. Snake Eaters raise serpent-like creatures as food-stock.

Geneticist Moira Crewe is on the under-construction Cloud Ark with the Human Genetic Archive, from which the race can be sustained. Also, she stores digitized DNA on a thumb-drive, and this one day will be converted into biological reality. How? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

By inserting the drive into a genetic synthesizer.

Through gene manipulation, using the thumb-drive's genome-mapper.

By the invention of some far-future method after the Cloud Ark Swarm is established.

A DNA strand based on the data can be produced (after labor-intensive effort) with a few simple precursor chemicals.