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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The package sent to Bol Ye'an is addressed to whom?
(a) Rochambeaux.
(b) Tsueh.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Bowden.

2. What is the Illitan phrase written on the package sent to Bol Ye'an?
(a) The fate of a bear.
(b) The heart of a wolf.
(c) The pride of a lion.
(d) The mind of a tiger.

3. What are dissensi?
(a) Places in neither city.
(b) Places in both cities.
(c) Places each city claims as its own.
(d) Places off limits to each city.

4. What happens to Yolanda Rodriguez?
(a) She breaches.
(b) She surrenders to the police and confesses to conspiracy.
(c) She is shot at Copula Hall but escapes.
(d) She is fatally shot at Copula Hall.

5. Borlú discovers that Geary locked up on the same night as which events?
(a) The Art and Culture lecture events.
(b) The Oversight Committee's town hall events.
(c) The Women in Engineering's business events.
(d) The Chamber of Commerce's trade events.

6. When Borlú finds Bowden, why has no one arrested him?
(a) He has entered Orciny.
(b) He has a bomb.
(c) No one can find him.
(d) No one knows what city he is in.

7. Where does Borlú find Bowden?
(a) At Bol Ye'an.
(b) At the university library.
(c) At his apartment.
(d) At Copula Hall.

8. Borlú notices what about how he walks as Tye?
(a) They stay only in Ul Qoma.
(b) They walk without regard for city boundaries.
(c) They stick to crosshatched areas.
(d) They stick only to dissensi.

9. What exactly is Breach investigating?
(a) Geary's murder.
(b) The dig at Bol Ye'an.
(c) The Oversight Committee.
(d) Borlú's breach.

10. What does Borlú think about Geary's academic work?
(a) It is more interesting than her textbook annotations.
(b) It is very controversial.
(c) It releases a scientific breakthrough.
(d) It is not as interesting as her textbook annotations.

11. Who intercepts the package sent to Bol Ye'an?
(a) Rochambeaux.
(b) Buidze.
(c) Tsueh.
(d) Bowden.

12. At the end of the novel, what new name is Borlú known by?
(a) Tye.
(b) Bor.
(c) Tu.
(d) Orlu.

13. What accident distracts Borlú and Ashil from the investigation?
(a) A great fire at Copula Hall.
(b) A plane crashes in Beszel.
(c) An explosion at Bol Ye'an.
(d) A crash involving two buses.

14. While in Breach, Borlú is shown video footage of what?
(a) The sniper's confession.
(b) Copula Hall.
(c) Interrogations.
(d) The chase through the cities.

15. Borlú envisions a scenario in which Geary was able to do what?
(a) Fund the unificationists with items stolen from Bol Ye'an.
(b) Smuggle Precursor items out of Bol Ye'an.
(c) Create confusion regarding the items at Bol Ye'an.
(d) Deliver proof of Orciny to someone outside of Bol Ye'an.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is particularly uncomfortable with Borlú's plan to get two people out of the city?

2. What is declared as a result of the accident distracts Borlú and Ashil from the investigation?that

3. Where are Borlú and the shooter during the chase which follows the shooting at Copula Hall?

4. Which individual actually killed Geary?

5. Borlú discovers that Geary locked up the same days as when which person attended the events?

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