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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. Why were there many photographs taken of New York?
(a) To make a jigsaw puzzle.
(b) To prove the team visited New York.
(c) To look at the images for missed patterns.
(d) To use to construct an accurate scale model of the city.

2. Hub Control diagnoses the problem at the sixth small spike as resulting from what?
(a) Battery drain.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Psychological factors.
(d) An intense magnetic field.

3. Why is it impossible for Hermians born and bred on Mercury to go to Earth?
(a) Earth's gravity is three time more powerful than Mercury's.
(b) Because of the type of rain on Earth.
(c) Because there is not enough solar energy on Earth.
(d) Earth's gravity is twice as powerful than Mercury's.

4. When on top of the levee at the far side of the city, what concerns Norton?
(a) The wall is apparently part of a prison.
(b) There is no apparent means of access to the southern hemisphere.
(c) Signs of life started to appear suddenly.
(d) The complexity of the levee.

5. What is a sticky-bomb?
(a) Freeze-dried food.
(b) A sphere the size of a baseball that plays out a thread.
(c) A microphone that sticks to Jimmy's uniform.
(d) A small bomb that sticks to its target.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members are there in the United Planets?

2. According to Chapter 35, how many times in the past has the Commander received a Triple-A priority message?

3. What creatures start disassembling the broken monster in the Cylindrical Sea?

4. What word can be used to describe the spider-like creature that the explorers encounter while watching the evening news?

5. What scenery does Jimmy encounter as he walks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Chapter 17 entitled "Spring'?

2. Describe the first creature that is encountered on Rama.

3. Explain the differences Jimmy Pak observed in the southern and northern ends of Rama.

4. Why does Jerry Kirchoff make facetious comments to Norton and Rousseau in Chapters 36 and 37?

5. Why is Jimmy Pak able to remain calm as he struggles to land the sky-bike?

6. Why is it the case that some planets in the solar system are not represented in the United Planets?

7. Why does the exobiologist, Dr. Perera, feel mortified at the beginning of Chapter 19?

8. Describe the flower that Jimmy Pak finds on Rama.

9. Who is the only member of the crew that seems comfortable with the sights now illuminated on Rama?

10. Why are Hermians compared to Spartans?

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