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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The space suits that Kin and the others don give them what capability?
(a) Invisibility.
(b) Automatic weaponry.
(c) Flight.
(d) Immunity to hunger and thirst.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the Kung?
(a) They are prone to violence.
(b) They are xenophobic.
(c) They love exploration.
(d) They are peace-loving.

4. Jago Jalo believes that the flat Earth was created by which group?
(a) The Builders.
(b) The Company.
(c) The Wheelers.
(d) The Spindle Kings.

5. What is Kin Arad's job?
(a) To edit histoy books.
(b) To manage the Disc.
(c) To oversee the creation of new planets.
(d) To pilot space probes.

6. Why does Kin decide to go with Jago?
(a) The Company orders her to go.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) She needs to flee from the Company.
(d) Money.

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

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

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

10. What is Joel's relationship to Kin?
(a) He is her supervisor.
(b) He is her ex-husband.
(c) She is his supervisor.
(d) He is her coworker.

11. What does a "watcher" do?
(a) Looks for evidence of the Spindle Kings.
(b) Monitors the Terminus project.
(c) Watches the progress of colonists on a new world.
(d) Oversees the creation of new planets.

12. The Spindle Kings were believed to have what characteristic?
(a) They lived in vast hive cities.
(b) They had an insect-like colony system.
(c) They prefered to be alone.
(d) They were extremely warlike.

13. What race is Silver?
(a) Human.
(b) Wheeler.
(c) Kung.
(d) Shand.

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

15. Why do the characters fly the ship around the flat planet?
(a) To avoid its defenses.
(b) To examine it more closely.
(c) To make a safe landing.
(d) To slow the ship's orbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the bartender request from Kin?

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

3. Kin thinks that the humans on the flat planet suspect which of the following?

4. The Great Spindle Kings were believed to have what capability?

5. How does Marco view himself?

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