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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. Whose voice does Dr. Afriel hear?
(a) Dr. Mirny's.
(b) Dr. Merny's.
(c) Dr. Mirnie's.
(d) Dr. Marny's.

2. What does the symbiote do?
(a) Speaks English.
(b) None of these.
(c) Speaks to Afriel.
(d) Bites Afriel.

3. What body part does Nikolai replace?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His liver.
(c) His lungs.
(d) His heart.

4. How does Nikolai's wife die?
(a) Contact venom on the door knob of their home.
(b) Shot.
(c) Her cybernetics gives out.
(d) She doesn't die.

5. Why are those people killed?
(a) They had figured out how to manufacture gems.
(b) They had figured out how to remain immortal.
(c) They had completely joined the ecosystem.
(d) They had figured out the Investors' stardrive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Landau's closest friend?

2. What is the new caste's specialty?

3. Who does Nikolai meet in ECLECTIC EPILEPTIC?

4. Who had killed Nikolai's wife?

5. What is the signal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interesting information does Lindsay find out about Wellspring?

2. How does Mirasol view the orbiting city? Why does she feel this way?

3. What has Landau been waiting for, and why did he have to wait?

4. How is the killing of the people originally justified?

5. What does the book refer to in Chapter Nine regarding the strain on humanity?

6. Why do the Cicadas need to bathe but Lindsay does not?

7. What is unique about "Fuzzy"?

8. For what reason does the Mechanist woman propose marriage?

9. Why is winter the season for pruning the sunken gardens?

10. Why does Nikolai retire and commit suicide?

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