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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 Dean (k)yK react when Qfwfq loses a bet?
(a) He is polite and happy.
(b) He solemnly chides Qfwfq's foolishness.
(c) He frowns, thinking that though he's won one bet, he's lost too many.
(d) He laughs at Qfwfq.

2. How does Lieutenant Fenimore react when the narrator indicates he's seen a universe?
(a) He is contemptuous.
(b) He is horrified.
(c) He is thrilled.
(d) He is irritated.

3. What begins to happen to Qfwfq and Dean (k)yK's bets after humanity appears on the scene?
(a) Dean (k)yK begins to win more bets.
(b) Dean (k)yK stops betting.
(c) Qfwfq begins to win every bet, without exception.
(d) Dean (k)yK begins to win every bet, without exception.

4. How does Qfwfq feel about N'ba N'ga?
(a) Qfwfq is jealous of N'ba N'ga's watery home.
(b) Qfwfq loves N'ba N'ga.
(c) Qfwfq is afraid of N'ba N'ga.
(d) Qfwfq is embarrassed by N'ba N'ga.

5. In the world millions of years later, where does the narrator see the image of the first female mollusk he interacts with?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) In all women.
(c) In only one woman he sees for a fleeting moment.
(d) In only photographs and representations of women.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Ursula H'x always look at as she falls?

3. What does Qfwfq discover when he goes to spy out the reported dinosaurs?

4. What does the first sign the narrator sees say?

5. When Fern-flower dreams of a dinosaur being teased, what does she do in the dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the attitude of the New Ones to the Dinosaurs, when Qfwfq first encounters the New Ones after his period of isolation?

2. How does Lll react when she first meets N'ba N'ga?

3. What does N'ba N'ga like about the water where he lives?

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

5. Why does the narrator get an enormous sign of a hand with a pointing finger?

6. Describe the problems with the advice N'ba N'ga gives his family.

7. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.

8. How do the New Ones' perception of dinosaurs change over the time Qfwfq is with them?

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

10. How does the narrator see evolution as confining?

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