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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the section of the ship where the waste is handled?
(a) Bactry.
(b) Incinerator.
(c) Poop deck.
(d) Septicary.

2. Ezr learns in Chapter Ten that the pain he'd felt was a virus given to many of the Qeng Ho, designed to do what?
(a) Keep them incapacitated.
(b) Blind them.
(c) Destroy bones and joints.
(d) Make them insane.

3. What two youngsters pop up out of the fur on Sherkaner's back when Unnerby visits in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Brent and Ritsel.
(b) Kira and Luan.
(c) Pedure and Trud.
(d) Rhapsa and Hrunkner.

4. In Chapter Nine, Thomas Nau points out the progress being made on an operation to mine what?
(a) Oil.
(b) Emeralds.
(c) Sapphires.
(d) Diamonds.

5. How did most of the crew of the Qeng Ho expedition spend the voyage?
(a) Preparing weapons.
(b) Hungry.
(c) In cold sleep.
(d) Bored.

6. Where is Sherkaner headed in Chapter Four?
(a) Space Command.
(b) Waters Command.
(c) Air Command.
(d) Lands Command.

7. In Chapter Seventeen, who created a club of sorts which, though not sanctioned by the Emergents, is allowed to exist and draws a great many visitors?
(a) Benny Wen.
(b) Jimmy Diem.
(c) Sura Vinh.
(d) Ali Lin.

8. What was the home planet of Pham Nuwen?
(a) Sagarphen.
(b) Marmotia.
(c) Canberra.
(d) Frandicine.

9. In Chapter Thirteen, who points out that the two factions now have no choice but to concentrate on joint survival?
(a) Thomas Nau.
(b) Trixia Bronsol.
(c) Victory Smith.
(d) Ezr Vinh.

10. Who is the Qeng Ho leader in Chapter One?
(a) Ezr Vinh.
(b) Captain Park.
(c) Benny Wen.
(d) Trixia Bronsol.

11. In Chapter Twelve, the Relight is causing all sorts of problems, and what are floating near several of the ships?
(a) Satellites.
(b) Ice chunks.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Enemy ships.

12. From whom does Sherkaner rent a room for the night in Chapter Four?
(a) A former teacher.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A retired doctor.
(d) A mechanic.

13. What population in the book are traders and tend to search for ways of establishing trading agreements wherever they are?
(a) The Liberators.
(b) The Jong Da.
(c) The Qeng Ho.
(d) The Emergents.

14. Who is the head of the Emergents' expedition and is a man whose greed makes him oblivious to everything else?
(a) Thomas Nau.
(b) Ann Reynolt.
(c) Victory Smith.
(d) Hrunkner Unnerby.

15. What member of the Qeng Ho is a linguistics expert, and her task as one of the focused is to learn all she can about the Spiders?
(a) Captain Park.
(b) Qiwi Linsolet.
(c) Trixia Bronsol.
(d) Victory Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work?

2. In Chapter Fourteen, Sherkaner explains that he has a plan to do what?

3. What junior quartermaster is angry over the lack of technology available in Chapter Ten?

4. Pham Nuwen has the idea to create a race of what in Chapter Seventeen?

5. Who wants to marry Sherkaner in Chapter Seven?

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