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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. How does Qfwfq get Ayl to come with him?
(a) He gives her food.
(b) He sings to her.
(c) He lies to her.
(d) He tells her she's beautiful.

2. When asked if the sign was visible, how does Qfwfq respond?
(a) He says visibilty was uncertain, and it flickered in and out.
(b) He says no one had eyes to see with then.
(c) He says the sign was invisible to everyone but him.
(d) He says the sign was visible for miles around.

3. What does Qfwfq do when he starts to forget what his sign looks like?
(a) He begins trying to recreate his sign, drawing it everywhere.
(b) He begins making theories about what the sign must look like.
(c) He begins a journey to find the sign and remind himself about it.
(d) He begins designing new signs to supercede the old one.

4. How does Mrs. Ph(i)nK_0 feel about the rest of the inhabitants of the point?
(a) She feels surrounded and watched.
(b) She likes them but gets irritated.
(c) She is jealous.
(d) She loves them all.

5. What causes the sea creatures to go up into the air?
(a) The density of the air.
(b) The attraction of the moon.
(c) The motion of the boats.
(d) The push of the tides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Pber^t Pber^d doing now?

2. What does Qfwfq make in his secret storeroom?

3. Where does G'd(w)^n go after the light appears?

4. What scientist's calculations are referred to in the opening to the story?

5. What does Qfwfq do when he locates Ayl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Qfwfq thinks as he nears the end of the first galactic revolution and believes he's about to see his sign again.

2. How does Pfwfp start acting strangely, as the game between him and Qfwfq goes on?

3. What skills does the Deaf One have that make it easiest for him to climb up to the moon?

4. What traps Ayl at the end of the story?

5. What does Granny think is happening when light first appears?

6. Why does Qfwfq say that the sign is more important than its function of marking a place?

7. What does Qfwfq try to communicate with Ayl when they first meet?

8. Describe the visualization that all the people in the point have of Mrs. Ph(i)nK_0 that leads to the Big Bang.

9. In the story, one of the characters accidentally floats up into the air. Describe how that character comes back down.

10. How does the Deaf One act while the moon is further away from the Earth?

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