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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the man whom the characters meet in the desert want to trade?
(a) The destroyed dumbwaiter.
(b) The space suits.
(c) The rights to salvage the crashed ship.
(d) Silver's services as a linguist.

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

3. What is unusual about the demon's appearance?
(a) It is blurry when viewed at a distance.
(b) Everyone finds that they want to look away from it.
(c) It is fuzzy around the edges.
(d) Its skin color shifts and changes.

4. What is the result of Kin's attempt to take revenge for her friend's imprisonment?
(a) She is badly injured.
(b) The building is set on fire.
(c) The entire town guard is alerted.
(d) The building is destroyed.

5. Soon after rescuing Kin, the group discovers what kind of a structure?
(a) A quarry.
(b) A pyramid.
(c) A temple.
(d) A long wall.

6. How does the winged demon communicate with Kin?
(a) By writing with its claw.
(b) It does not communicate in any way.
(c) By telepathy.
(d) By taking control of people around it and forcing them to speak.

7. What do the locals want to do with Kin?
(a) Execute her.
(b) Send her to an inquisition.
(c) Perform an exorcism on her.
(d) Send her to a convent.

8. How does Kin encounter the winged demon?
(a) It is placed in the cell next to her.
(b) It appears and offers to free her.
(c) She sees it briefly during her escape.
(d) She sees it moving through the prison's walls.

9. The flying statue that takes Kin out of the place she hides in has the form of which of the following?
(a) A horse.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A griffin.
(d) A giant eagle.

10. What unusual thing about the ocean do the explorer's notice as they fly over it after leaving the sailor's home?
(a) There is strange flow of water in at least one area..
(b) There are numerous whirlpools in some areas..
(c) It has no tides.
(d) It is divided into reserviors.

11. The group discovers a monument of some kind which is somewhat like which real world monument?
(a) The Taj Mahal.
(b) The Washington Monument.
(c) Stone Henge.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

12. What does Kin request from the Djinnee?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A new dumbwaiter.
(c) Directions to the hub.
(d) A magical sword.

13. What does Kin ask Marco to do with the demon?
(a) Free it.
(b) Take it captive.
(c) See if it is also a robot.
(d) Kill it.

14. The destroyed water pipe is believed to perform what function?
(a) Carries fresh water to a nearby well.
(b) Returns water from the edge of the disc.
(c) Fills a nearby lake.
(d) Drains the surrounding area.

15. What do the explorers hope to find at the center of the planet?
(a) The Spindle Kings.
(b) Jago's contacts on the planet.
(c) A control room and the Builders.
(d) Machinery to repair their spacecraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?

2. The group concludes that the demon must use a very advanced form of what technology?

3. Why has the spaceship moved to a new location?

4. How does Marco misuse the dumbwaiter during the group's first night at the sailor's homeland?

5. What danger is Kin in soon after she and the others land on the first island they find after leaving the sailor's home?

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