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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What job does Zahn recommend Qfwfq for, which Qfwfq would rather not do?
(a) Ruling the village.
(b) Exploring new territory.
(c) Being ambassador to neighboring species.
(d) Defending the village.
2. What does Ursula H'x do as she falls?
(a) She does her nails or combs her hair.
(b) She plays music and sings.
(c) She does calisthenics.
(d) She sleeps constantly.
3. What type of fish is N'ba N'ga?
(a) Exocoetus.
(b) Rhincodontidae.
(c) Tetraodontidae.
(d) Coelacanthus.
4. During what period did the dinosaurs die out?
(a) The Eocene.
(b) The Cretaceous.
(c) The Miocene.
(d) The Paleozoic.
5. How do the New Ones subsist?
(a) They gather berries, mushrooms, and vegetables from the woods.
(b) They hunt deer in the woods.
(c) They grow vegetables in gardens.
(d) They catch fish from the river.
6. For how long does Qfwfq say he was a dinosaur?
(a) About thirty million years.
(b) About fifty million years.
(c) About a hundred million years.
(d) About eighty million years.
7. How does the narrator first interact with a female?
(a) He dances around her.
(b) He fertilizes her eggs.
(c) He bumps into her.
(d) He follows her path.
8. Who does the mollusk expect to develop sight but doesn't?
(a) The ocean and the sky.
(b) The mollusk shells.
(c) Himself and the female mollusk.
(d) The eggs that the mollusks lay.
9. How does the narrator see the shape of space?
(a) As a long curve that meets back with itself.
(b) As a long and smooth spiral.
(c) As a jagged-edged zig-zag.
(d) As a complex shape of curves, indentations, and projections.
10. How far away is the galaxy where the narrator sees the sign?
(a) Fifty million light years.
(b) A hundred million light years.
(c) A hundred and fifty million light years.
(d) Ten million light years.
11. What example of a detailed bet that he makes does Qfwfq give?
(a) What shape Australia's coastline will take.
(b) Where the Great Pyramids will be located.
(c) How deep the Grand Canyon will be.
(d) Whether the Assyrians will invade Mesopotamia.
12. How does the narrator feel about the female he comes to notice?
(a) He doesn't care about her.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He is irritated by her.
13. What does Qfwfq discover when he goes to spy out the reported dinosaurs?
(a) They are ostriches.
(b) They are hippopotamuses.
(c) They are rhinoceroses.
(d) They are aligators.
14. Why is the narrator certain Ursula H'x and Lieutenant Fenimore can't meet?
(a) Lieutenant Fenimore and Ursula H'x are in separate dimensions.
(b) Ursula H'x is completely contained in an inaccessible sphere.
(c) They cannot move as they fall.
(d) They are all falling parallel to each other.
15. How does the narrator know about females of his species?
(a) Through vibrations.
(b) Through electric impulses.
(c) Through smells.
(d) Through sounds.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the world millions of years later, where does the narrator see the image of the first female mollusk he interacts with?
2. What sign does the narrator see, when he looks up in anticipation of a reaction to the second event, of which he is proud?
3. How many people does the narrator expect will see the second event in his life, of which he is proud, compared to the first more shaming moment?
4. What is the second sign the narrator sees, when he is looking for reactions to his magnanimous and generous actions?
5. What sign does the narrator finally choose as his response to the first sign?
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