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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pham do before loosing consciousness?
(a) Captures the companion.
(b) Fires on and hits Blueshell.
(c) Fires on and hits Greenstalk.
(d) Kills Ravan.

2. What prompts Pham to agree to contacting Kjet Svendndot?
(a) Ravna threatens to contact the council.
(b) OOB's ultradrive and automation fail and the workshop catches fire.
(c) Ravna's threat of suicide.
(d) Blueshell showing Pham there is no way to manipulate the vortex.

3. What worries Ravna about Greenstalk and Blueshell?
(a) That they work from a deep compulsion set on them.
(b) That they are waiting to act until they find the recorder device on Olndot's cargo ship.
(c) That she is mistaken about them.
(d) That they carry the Blight's blueprint.

4. Who must do the talking at Saint Rihndell's Repair Harbor?
(a) Jefri.
(b) Ravna.
(c) The Riders.
(d) Pham.

5. What must OOB do at the opening of chapter 25?
(a) Be fitted for slow beyond.
(b) Be made capable of light speed.
(c) Be retrofitted with a quantum drive.
(d) Put in for repairs.

6. What do the most competent posters on the Net think about the Blight's interest in the High Beyond?
(a) The Blight hasn't the ability to find High Beyond.
(b) The Blight does not even know the High Beyond exists.
(c) The Blight will not lose interest in controlling the High Beyond.
(d) The Blight will lose interest in invading High Beyond.

7. What does Pham tell Ravna is real?
(a) The Riders' myth.
(b) The Blight on the cargo ship.
(c) The new boundary.
(d) His memory of pre-Blight times.

8. Why does Vendacious lead Woodcarver's army through such rugged land?
(a) To avoid detection.
(b) To toughen them.
(c) To flank Steel's army.
(d) It's the only way to get to the alien ship.

9. Why does OOB not go to Sjandra Kei?
(a) It is hostile to humans and Ravna would be in danger.
(b) It is too far away.
(c) It does not have the necessary materials.
(d) It is hostile to Pham.

10. Why does Pham power up his weapons?
(a) He accidentally hits the on button.
(b) He senses an ambush.
(c) He is testing them.
(d) He is demonstrating how they work.

11. Who does Ravna think created the Riders?
(a) The Old One.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) The Blight.
(d) The inhabitants of Earth several billion years ago.

12. What does Chitiratte wait impatiently to signal?
(a) The approach of Steel's army.
(b) The approach of the rescue ship.
(c) Johanna's assassination.
(d) The end of the long cliffs they are rapelling.

13. How big is the fleet that is pursuing OOB?
(a) 75.
(b) 100.
(c) 1000.
(d) 500.

14. To what does Steel have a natural aversion?
(a) Eating animal flesh.
(b) Being mentally perused.
(c) Drinking alcohol.
(d) Being touched.

15. What is slowing OOB's progress?
(a) A Great Zone Storm.
(b) The Old One's mind drags them.
(c) A vortex of time parses.
(d) A jump vortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Steel happy about concerning the radio cloaks?

2. What did Jefri's parents warn him to avoid?

3. How does Pham seem to exist?

4. Who agrees with Pham's version of the shootout?

5. How does Amdijefri communicated with Ravna?

(see the answer keys)

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