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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 is the name of the first Chinese fighting group that Laks encounters?
(a) Northern Cranes.
(b) Zed Leppelins.
(c) Iron Tigers.
(d) The Bonking Heads.

2. Who is Lotte?
(a) Saskia's daughter.
(b) Amelia's sister.
(c) Rufus' wife.
(d) Saskia's logistics officer.

3. What is T.R. fictitious last name that he uses on billboards and television commercials?
(a) McMenamin.
(b) McMonald.
(c) McMurphy.
(d) McHooligan.

4. What happens to the Dutch prime minister's coalition in the aftermath of the wave?
(a) His coalition strengthens.
(b) His coalition comes under scrutiny for allegedly being responsible for the rogue wave.
(c) His coalition must work with the pro-geoengineering party to survive.
(d) His coalition dissolves.

5. What did Rufus do in the army?
(a) He was an intelligence officer.
(b) He was a medic.
(c) He was a fighter pilot.
(d) He was a mechanic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the World's Biggest Gun fire?

2. What kind of presentation do Laks and the others have to watch once they get to the Line of Actual Control?

3. What is the name of the residence where Saskia lives?

4. In what mode of conveyance do T.R. and his guests tour Houston the day after the meet and greet cocktail party?

5. What does Michiel say is Venice's main climate related problem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Laks' newfound purpose?

2. What brings ants closer to human populations in Houston?

3. Why does T.R. take his guests on a drone tour of Buffalo Bayou and the greater Houston area?

4. Who joins Rufus at the marble mine and why?

5. What existential matter does Laks come up against in Chandigarh?

6. What is the Line of Actual Control?

7. What is China's agenda in causing a massive wave to destroy the Maeslantkering and flood the Netherlands and England?

8. On the train ride out to West Texas, how does Rufus explain to Alastair that Comanches "won" the war in the larger sense?

9. Why is Laks politely asked to leave the first akhara he joins?

10. How do Saskia and Ruud handle the Pina2bo problem in regard to Saskia's budget day speech?

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