Seveneves Quiz

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When U.S. President Julia Bliss Flaherty describes the proposed Cloud Ark Swarm as a "distributed architecture," what does she mean? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

The Cloud Ark's orbit will be modeled with random number generators.

The Cloud Ark is designed to mimic a beehive.

Widely separated sections, in order to decentralize and protect the Human Genetic Archive from incoming lunar debris.

The construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

Who are the Sooners? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Persons making illegal visits to New Earth's terraformed surface.

Officially sanctioned "seeders" of plant and animal life.

Those selected to be first residents of the restored planet.

The first who die accidentally on New Earth.

When the Diggers (descendants of Old Earth's Rufus MacQuarie) are discovered to have survived underground 5,000 years after Hard Rain, why is their leader hostile toward Spacers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

He hates Spacers for their cowardly abandonment of the planet.

He fears losing control and authority over his womb-like world.

Spacers have killed Diggers.

He resents Spacers' "reclaiming" a world no longer theirs.

The Casting of Lots (where young women and men were chosen to become "Arkers") proves to be not as random as planned, resulting in Venezuelan protesters threatening to fire weaponized rockets at the nearby space port used to launch vital supplies to the Cloud Ark. U.S. president Julia Flaherty orders a limited nuclear strike and wipes out the "pirate" ships. What prompted this? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

Elitist politicians picking and choosing for sameness over diversity, and lying about it.

The protesters fired the first round.

China, in cahoots with the United States, wants complete control over the launches.

The President is sinking into madness because national leaders are forbidden to abandon their countries for life in orbit.

Parts of the International Space Station ("Izzy") are being retrofitted with spinning torus (doughnut-shaped) modules to provide simulated gravity. Why is this important? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

To improve computing efficiency.

Zero-gravity negatively affects bone density, muscle mass, eyeball shape (hence vision), and other systems.

Clear thinking in zero-gee is nearly impossible.

So crew members can eat solid food without choking.