Schismatrix Plus Test | Final Test - Easy

Bruce Sterling
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Schismatrix Plus Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the new caste's specialty?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Cloning.
(c) All of these.
(d) Breeding.

2. Where does Landau find Wellspring?
(a) In Dogtown.
(b) On Earth.
(c) None of these.
(d) In Zaibatsu.

3. As what is Afriel supposed to address the doctor when he has been brought to her?
(a) IntelliSwarm.
(b) SmartSwarm.
(c) Swarm.
(d) None of these.

4. What does she have that the Investors want?
(a) None of these.
(b) A new technology.
(c) A planet-jewel.
(d) A jewel the size of a bus.

5. What does the pet become?
(a) An ape.
(b) A baby.
(c) A child.
(d) A demon.

6. How many years do the Investors think it will take humans to buy the secret of their starflight?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Two hundred.

7. For what is the Froth famous?
(a) Welcome spontaneity.
(b) Delirium.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

8. What patent is Navarre attempting to push forward?
(a) None of these.
(b) One for a new hyperdrive.
(c) One for the production of artificial Investor hide.
(d) One for a new malleable rubber compound.

9. What unnerves the Cicadas?
(a) The fact that the two alien elements are juxtaposed.
(b) The walls and floor of flesh.
(c) The shops of stone intermixed with the mounds of flesh.
(d) All of these.

10. How many hours does Spider Rose spend examining their wares?
(a) Sixteen hours.
(b) Twenty-four hours.
(c) Seven hours.
(d) Eight hours.

11. What doesn't Landau fear any longer?
(a) Being alone.
(b) Death.
(c) The cold.
(d) Public ridicule.

12. Who does Nikolai meet in ECLECTIC EPILEPTIC?
(a) Spider Rose.
(b) Abelard Lindsay.
(c) Abelard Gomez.
(d) Simon Afriel.

13. For what does the Captain-Doctor say that he would have paid from the Investors?
(a) Information.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

14. What is the specialty of the Patternists?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Cerebral asymmetry.
(d) Construction of genetic patterns.

15. Why do Lindsay and Vera's hearts leap?
(a) There is actually an environment untouched by mankind.
(b) There is a way for detente to be permanently plausible.
(c) The geology of Earth is like Europa.
(d) They have finally found what they are looking for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What isn't offered to Rose for her prize?

2. What no longer startles Spider Rose?

3. How do the gasbags communicate?

4. How long does this new caste member live?

5. Who or what do Nikolai and his friend Alex mimic?

(see the answer keys)

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