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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they land on an island after leaving the sailor's people, what does Kin attempt to do?
(a) Determine their latitude and longitude.
(b) Find the locals.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Start a cooking fire.

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

3. What special property does the magical sword have?
(a) It can cut through other weapons easily.
(b) It fights on its own.
(c) It is sheathed in flames.
(d) It freezes anything its blade touches.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kin think that the Company would never build a planet like the flat Earth?

2. What does the group discover at the center of the ship?

3. What interrupts Kin the second time she tries to bathe?

4. What is unusual about the demon's appearance?

5. The locals who arrested her believe Kin to be __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the explorers greeted when they reach the sailors' homeland?

2. Describe the creature put into the cell next to Kin. What does the group eventually learn and speculate about it?

3. How is Kin rescued, and what do the characters think about the manner or her rescue?

4. What happens to Silver as she and the others near the hub?

5. What do the explorers come to believe about the machinery of the planet?

6. What is unusual about the stars seen from the flat planet?

7. Where does the Djinnee come from, and what does he do?

8. What do the locals intend to do with Kin, and how is this prevented?

9. How does Kin escape after the man whom she and the others meet in the desert turns on them?

10. What are the man on the flying carpet's real motivations?

(see the answer keys)

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