Seveneves Quiz

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Why is Crater Lake, Oregon, with views of blue water, snowy mountains and pines, selected for international dignitaries' end-times announcement to the media? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

The media demanded it.

The dignitaries want a decadent eating-and-drinking experience in the famous lodge.

Because the park is far removed from populated areas.

The gorgeous vista symbolizes nature triumphing over cosmic catastrophe.

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

Those selected to be first residents of the restored planet.

The first who die accidentally on New Earth.

Officially sanctioned "seeders" of plant and animal life.

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

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)

Spacers have killed Diggers.

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

He hates Spacers for their cowardly abandonment of the planet.

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

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)

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

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

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

The protesters fired the first round.

During the spacecraft Endurance's 3-year flight to Cleft, how is incoming lunar debris avoided? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

By zapping rocks with a military-grade beam weapon.

By staying in an orbit much higher than the debris field.

Through deploying massive shields built from asteroid-mined iron.

Through three shifts of full-time sensor watchers, and constant thruster firings to avoid detected threats.