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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. Of what is the magical table made?
(a) Steel.
(b) Marble.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Oak.
2. Who greets the explorers when they land?
(a) An undertaker.
(b) The king of the region.
(c) The captain's father.
(d) A merchant.
3. What does the group eventually decide to do with the winged demon?
(a) Let it go.
(b) Send it back to the locals.
(c) Take it with them to the center of the disc.
(d) Kill it.
4. Kin and the others discover that the first island they land on after leaving the sailor's home is really which of the following?
(a) A mechanical volcano.
(b) A giant turtle.
(c) A submerged mountain.
(d) A free-floating mangrove island.
5. What special property does the flying carpet have?
(a) A protective shield prevents anyone from falling off.
(b) It doesn't work for anyone but its owner.
(c) It always returns to its owner.
(d) It changes colors.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the group discover at the center of the ship?
2. Where does the fight between Kin and the man that the character's bargained with take place?
3. Compared to what the company can produce, what can be said about the demon's technology?
4. What danger is Kin in soon after she and the others land on the first island they find after leaving the sailor's home?
5. How does Kin propose to find new Shand proteins for Silver?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Kin and the others at the end of this section?
2. Why does Kin refuse to believe that the Company could have created the flat planet?
3. Describe the creature put into the cell next to Kin. What does the group eventually learn and speculate about it?
4. What happens to Silver as she and the others near the hub?
5. How are the explorers greeted when they reach the sailors' homeland?
6. What do the explorers come to believe about the machinery of the planet?
7. What is unusual about the first island that Kin and the others come to after leaving the sailors' homeland? What danger does the group face there?
8. What are the man on the flying carpet's real motivations?
9. What do Kin and Marco resolve to do until Shand proteins can be found for Silver?
10. What does the group do with the winged demon?
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