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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sherkaner tell the person he rents a room from he is considering doing in Chapter Four?
(a) Enlisting in the military.
(b) Leaving town.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) Commiting suicide.

2. Who asks for Ezr's insight in deciding how to deal with the Emergents in Chapter Two?
(a) Pham Trilini.
(b) Captain Park.
(c) Director Ann Reynolt.
(d) Thomas Nau.

3. What member of one of the families that owns interest in the Qeng Ho expedition is working as an apprentice Trader when the ships reach Arachna?
(a) Ezr Vinh.
(b) Gonle Fong.
(c) Thomas Nau.
(d) Jimmy Diem.

4. On the surface in Chapter Eleven, Jimmy and several members of his crew work while planning an attack on what?
(a) The Far Treasure.
(b) The On/Off Star.
(c) The Spider Nations.
(d) The Mine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, there's a plan in place for a small force to wake during the Dark and to attack the Tiefstadt's what?

2. In Chapter Fifteen, there's a meeting in which who learns that one of the men focused on a particular project has become so caught up in the technicalities that he is no longer making progress?

3. How old was Pham Nuwen when a group of traders arrived on his home planet?

4. In Chapter Seven, what elderly Qeng Ho is on the captain's bridge?

5. Who predicts that the Emergents plan is to force the planet inhabitants into servitude in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Arachna described in the book? What periods of time are in darkness there and why?

2. What is the relationship between Victory Smith and Sherkaner like in the first chapters of the book?

3. What does Ezr discover about his injury during the attack in Chapter Ten?

4. How is the university described in Chapter Fifteen?

5. What promotion does Ezr receive in Chapter Nine? Why?

6. Whose voice did Ezr hear just before the explosion of the Far Treasure? What does he consider about what was said?

7. How do the Emergents differ from the Qeng Ho in their exploration of other planets?

8. Who explains the use of "mindrot" to Ezr in Chapter Ten? How is it related to "focus"?

9. How is Spider civilization described by the author in the first chapters of the book?

10. Who is Pham Trilini? How is he described in the first chapters of the book?

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