Seveneves Quiz

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Men on Endurance die more frequently than women. Why? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

Self-sacrifice to ensure the greater good.

Inherent violence results in deadly fights.

They are more biologically vulnerable to radiation, require more air and food, and simply are not psychologically resilient enough to survive decades in crowded indoor spaces.

Men insist on performing the most dangerous extravehicular activities.

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

Through deploying massive shields built from asteroid-mined iron.

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

By zapping rocks with a military-grade beam weapon.

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

Why do later generations not simply employ digital DNA data from Eve Moira's thumb-drive? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Reverting to the “rootstock” human race is considered as a kind of autogenocide.

Political policy forbids this.

This would result in horrible mutations.

The technological skills have been lost to time.

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 construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

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

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

The Cloud Ark is designed to mimic a beehive.

Why does Alaskan miner Rufus MacQuarie use an antique telegraph key and Morse code to communicate with his space-based daughter? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

No one alive remembers how to read Morse code except Rufus' daughter.

This system is impervious to Internet spying and excessive bandwidth traffic.

Rufus is a Luddite and despises high technology.

The antique system is a sentimental gift from Rufus' deceased wife.