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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 76-105.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?
(a) They move in unpredictably.
(b) The flicker out sometimes.
(c) They are vanishing more and more rapidly.
(d) They seem to be getting closer.

2. What is the result of the impact that occurs immediately after the ship arrives at the flat planet?
(a) The ship loses all of its sensors.
(b) The weapons hold blows up.
(c) The raven escapes again.
(d) The ship is too damaged to make a return trip.

3. How does Marco misuse the dumbwaiter during the group's first night at the sailor's homeland?
(a) He creates objects of high technology that don't fit in the world.
(b) He uses it too often, causing the locals to accuse him of witchcraft.
(c) He allows the sailors to make beer and get drunk.
(d) He tries to program it to make another dumbwaiter.

4. What do Kin and the others decide to do with the ship?
(a) Hide it.
(b) Put it on autopilot.
(c) Abandon it.
(d) Destroy it.

5. What does Macro initially not like about Silver?
(a) Her frightening appearance.
(b) Her ingratiating politeness.
(c) He does not like members of her race.
(d) Her abruptness and rudeness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marco view himself?

2. Why does Silver agree to go on the expedition?

3. The space suits that Kin and the others don give them what capability?

4. Marco shows the native people how to use the dumbwaiter by helping them program it to make what?

5. Kin Arad works for which of the following groups?

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