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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. What special property does the magical table possess?
(a) It weighs nothing.
(b) It can move on its own.
(c) It can create almost anything a person wishes for.
(d) It can increase or diminish in size.

2. The winged demon has which of the following capabilities?
(a) It has unimaginable strength.
(b) It can read thoughts.
(c) It can see through walls.
(d) It can coerce anyone to obey it.

3. Kin and Silver discuss what unusual property of the stars?
(a) The flicker out sometimes.
(b) They seem to be getting closer.
(c) They move in unpredictably.
(d) They are vanishing more and more rapidly.

4. What does Kin take with her from her hiding place?
(a) A spyglass.
(b) A bag of coins.
(c) A map.
(d) A sword.

5. What does Silver say about Marco while she is talking with Kin during their first night among the sailor's people?
(a) He will betray the group.
(b) He is hiding something.
(c) He is less human than be believes.
(d) He is too friendly with the locals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The flying statue that takes Kin out of the place she hides in has the form of which of the following?

3. What does Kin request from the Djinnee?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the dumbwaiter destroyed?

3. What is Marco's plan, and what do Kin and Silver think about it?

4. Whom do Kin and the others meet in the desert? What is the result of this meeting?

5. Why does Kin refuse to believe that the Company could have created the flat planet?

6. What does the group discover at the ship's crash-site?

7. What causes the brawl in the Great Hall?

8. 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?

9. How do Kin's feelings about the Company begin to change soon after the dumbwaiter is destroyed?

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

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