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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 123-152.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Becoming a watcher requires what sacrifice?
(a) The forfeiture of all day credits.
(b) Leaving normal human society forever.
(c) The employee must be put to sleep for several generations.
(d) Never being able to return to Earth.

2. How old is Kin Arad?
(a) Thousands of years old.
(b) Twenty years old.
(c) Five hundred years old.
(d) A hundred years old.

3. Where do the explorers sleep that night?
(a) On the floor of a crowded tavern.
(b) In a stable.
(c) In a great hall.
(d) In an inn.

4. What does Silver learn about by studying Kin's books?
(a) Kin's life-story.
(b) The history of the Spindle Kings and the Wheelers.
(c) Kin's work with the Company.
(d) The history of humanity.

5. What do the explorers see as they fly over the ocean after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) A strange dead animal.
(b) A huge collection of sunken ships.
(c) An impossibly large whale.
(d) Seafaring craft from a variety of cultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the negotiation between the explorers and the man whom they meet in the desert take place?

2. With regards to Silver's impending madness, what course of action does Kin initially suggest?

3. Jago Jalo believes that the flat Earth was created by which group?

4. How did Kin acquire the object she uses to heal the injured locals?

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

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