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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did F'lar say would happen with Ramoth's clutch?
(a) That none would survive
(b) That Ramoth would lay without telling her
(c) That there would be a Queen egg
(d) That Lessa wouldn't be able to touch them

2. Who was the only bitter one at the Dragonmen's arrival from Pern of the Past?
(a) R'gul
(b) F'nor
(c) F'lar
(d) T'ton

3. What things were NOT suggested at the meeting?
(a) A Flamethrower
(b) Oil
(c) Letting the Threads die out and moving to the Southern Continent
(d) The sandworms of Igen

4. Why did the dragonman die?
(a) He wasn't fast enough
(b) All of these
(c) He was too toothless old to flame, and too old to jump between
(d) He didn't care and wanted to die in battle

5. Where does Lytol tell Lessa to go?
(a) Between two days ago
(b) Between four hours ago
(c) Between two days ago
(d) Between one week ago

6. What had gotten F'lar so worried?
(a) He didn't know where and when she was, and Mnementh couldn't hear them
(b) She left without saying goodbye, and deliberately disobeyed him
(c) He knew where and when she was, but Mnementh couldn't hear them
(d) She left without Ramoth

7. What did Ramoth do constantly while Lessa was sleeping?
(a) Roar
(b) Keen
(c) Cried
(d) Wailed

8. What happens to R'gul to get him out of his trance?
(a) F'lar shakes him
(b) Ramoth nudges him
(c) Lessa slaps him
(d) A Thread lands on his head

9. What made the two Weyrpeople believe her?
(a) Her accurate knowledge of the Ballads and Saga's
(b) Her accurate description of a tapestry that was finished the day before
(c) Her accurate knowledge of Ruatha Hold
(d) Her pleading eyes and the voice of her dragon

10. What was the primary reason the Weyrpeople agreed to go forward in time?
(a) Lessa offered to pay them
(b) It was their duty as dragonmen
(c) They were impressionable
(d) They were bored, and falling into decay and disfavor

11. Who wants to study the tapestry?
(a) Robinton
(b) F'lar
(c) Fendarel
(d) Lessa

12. Why are the dragons popping in and out of between?
(a) None of these
(b) To gain the advantage over the militaristic Threads
(c) To kill the Threads on them, as they hurt
(d) To keep the element of surprise

13. What makes them nervous?
(a) That the place feels so empty to them
(b) That there is no intelligent life on the Southern Continent
(c) Their placement in the past
(d) That there are no cliffs for the dragon Weyr

14. What did F'lar wish when Ramoth rose to her mating flight?
(a) That Lessa hadn't given herself to him
(b) That Lessa had loved him first
(c) That Lessa hadn't been a virgin too
(d) That Ramoth had mated with someone else

15. Why did Lessa spend more time persuading Kylara to be with the Queen egg?
(a) Kylara and Ramoth had an understanding
(b) Kylara had taken an interest in F'lars company
(c) Kylara was intelligent enough to be Weyrwoman
(d) Kylara was the next best candidate to be Weyrwoman

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does F'lar believe their ancestors chose to position Eye Rock and Finger Rock as they did?

2. How many jumps between had to be made?

3. How many dragons were waiting to pass inspection?

4. Who was the first casualty of the Threads?

5. When did Lessa go?

(see the answer keys)

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