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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 51-76.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kin become upset when the expedition gets underway?
(a) She doesn't get along with Marco and Silver.
(b) She hates space travel.
(c) She has decided to back out.
(d) She is distressed by Jago's condition.

2. On what kind of a formation do kin and the others land to spend their first night on the flat planet?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A volcanoe.
(c) A plateau.
(d) An island.

3. The Company's treatments can extend human life for at least how long?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) One hundred years.
(c) Thousands of years.
(d) Five hundred years.

4. Kin and the others discover what about the history of the flat planet?
(a) It is very similar to Earth's.
(b) No one remembers its history before about a hundred years ago.
(c) It is radically different from Earth's.
(d) There are many obvious contradictions in it.

5. Why does Silver agree to go on the expedition?
(a) For its historical significance.
(b) Because she owes Jago a favor.
(c) She is bored with her home planet.
(d) For personal reasons that she does not share.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the characters fly the ship around the flat planet?

2. The ship is stocked with a huge number and variety of what?

3. Kin wrote a popular book on what subject?

4. What is strange about the stars at the destination?

5. Which character claims to have visited a planet with technology so advanced it could have only been created by the Spindle Kings?

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