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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Chapters 1 through 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) “At the top of the gantry there’s a large white room where the space travelers stand, arms raised and doing slow pirouettes, as a disinfecting spray that smells suspiciously like bleach wafts over them.”
(b) “The service-and-delivery structure beside Eagle Heavy is a crisscross latticework of steel beams housing a huge open elevator.”
(c) “Eight men and two women walk in a line along the right side of the Tet control center.”
(d) “It’s a beautiful April day in Playalinda, Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral.”

2. With which of the following does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) “Gwendy seats herself between Bankole and Patel.”
(b) “But not as big as this one, Gwendy thinks as the roar of the engines increases to a bellow.”
(c) “Time in training has been slow.”
(d) “This is the third time the button box has come into Gwendy Peterson’s life.”

3. To what does Gwendy compare the blackness of space?
(a) A raccoon.
(b) An opossum.
(c) A panda.
(d) A muskrat.

4. Which of the following does Gwendy author?
(a) Void Highway.
(b) Emptiness Avenue.
(c) Desolation Street.
(d) Wasteland Boulevard.

5. Who is the mission control director?
(a) Smith.
(b) Lundgren.
(c) Braddock.
(d) Peterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following does Glen hail?

2. How much does Gareth pay to join the flight crew?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 2 begin?

4. What industry does Magowan promise to restore in Maine?

5. To whom is the novel dedicated?

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