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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 the narrator anticipate with relief at the end of "The Light-Years"?
(a) A way finally emerging that he can communicate more fully across space, to make his situation clear.
(b) A time when the galaxies all contract back together and he can communnicate more quickly.
(c) All the galaxies moving so far away that he can't communicate with them or change their opinions.
(d) The results of a final judgment on him from one central galaxy.

2. What does the narrator describe the making of his shell as?
(a) Pleading, like reaching out his hands.
(b) Aggression, like punching outward.
(c) Self-expression, like an exclamation.
(d) Expansion, like taking new territory.

3. 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.

4. Who does Ursula H'x always look at as she falls?
(a) Lieutenant Fenimore.
(b) No one.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Both the narrator and Lieutenant Fenimore.

5. What are the first things Qfwfq and Dean (k)yK have to bet with?
(a) Elements.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Ions.
(d) Quarks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the New Ones do when they find the dinosaur body?

2. What weapon does Lieutenant Fenimore use against the narrator?

3. What example of a detailed bet that he makes does Qfwfq give?

4. What does the second sign that the narrator sees through his telescope say?

5. What does Qfwfq think of N'ba N'ga's way of speaking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What second enormous hand sign does the narrator make, and why?

2. How does Zahn first react to Qfwfq?

3. What happens to the initial wealth that Qfwfq builds up?

4. How does the narrator see evolution as confining?

5. What does the narrator think the first sign he sees is referring to?

6. What does Qfwfq do with the body of the dinosaur the New Ones find?

7. How does Qfwfq describe Dean (k)yK, on a typical day in the present?

8. Describe N'ba N'ga's objections to living on land.

9. What causes the narrator's suspicions about the female he encounters?

10. Why does the narrator not want to show his desire to meet Ursula at the beginning of the story "The Form of Space"?

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