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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The native people agree to do what for Kin and her companions?
(a) Protect them.
(b) Trade with them.
(c) Take them to their homeland.
(d) Help repair the spaceship using the dumbwaiter.

2. Kin Arad works for which of the following groups?
(a) The Spindle Kings.
(b) The Company.
(c) The Builders.
(d) The Computers.

3. The characters see what feature at the edge of the flat planet?
(a) An enormous hologram.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A machine city.
(d) A huge wall of water.

4. What are the Spindle Kings credited with creating?
(a) The Earth's sun.
(b) The strata machine.
(c) Earth and all other planets.
(d) All life in the universe.

5. How does the raven escape from its cage?
(a) It picks the lock.
(b) Kin releases it.
(c) It burns its way out.
(d) The cage was left open.

6. How is the ship piloted?
(a) Using telepathy.
(b) Using film left by Jago.
(c) By autopilot.
(d) By aiming directly for a certain star.

7. What do Kin and the others do with Jago?
(a) They dispose of his body.
(b) They check him into a hospital.
(c) They place him in a medical sphere for later recovery.
(d) They leave him on the flight pad.

8. Kin's coworkers believed it would be funny to do what to the planet they were creating?
(a) Leave their mark on it.
(b) Give it no atmosphere.
(c) Make it a cube.
(d) Make it flat.

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

10. What is the function of a strata machine?
(a) It extends human life.
(b) It creates new worlds.
(c) It allows interstellar travel.
(d) Its function is unknown.

11. What is the relationship between the Wheelers and the Spindle Kings?
(a) They signed a treaty, but the Wheelers mysteriously disappeared.
(b) The Wheelers predated the Spindle Kings.
(c) The Wheelers wiped out the Spindle Kings.
(d) The Spindle Kings gave advanced technology to the Wheelers.

12. Marco shows the native people how to use the dumbwaiter by helping them program it to make what?
(a) Beer.
(b) Mutton.
(c) Wine.
(d) Roast pork.

13. How many day bills does Kin Arad have?
(a) She owes a significant number to the company.
(b) Many more than she needs for the time being.
(c) Almost none.
(d) Enough to last for the next year, and no more.

14. Which of the following is true of Kin's past relationships?
(a) She has had many former husbands.
(b) She has had many children.
(c) She professes never to have loved anyone.
(d) She has only married once.

15. What does the bartender request from Kin?
(a) Her voice imprint for his tape translation of her book.
(b) Her picture.
(c) Her fingerprint.
(d) Her autograph.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kin agrees to go with Jago Jalo, he arranges to take her first to what planet?

2. What is Kin Arad's job?

3. The bartender gives something to Kin, why does he do so?

4. What does Macro initially not like about Silver?

5. Who pilots the ship to the flat planet?

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