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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take to get to Quraqua?
(a) Twenty five days.
(b) Ten weeks.
(c) Twenty weeks.
(d) Fifteen days.

2. In what year does this novel begin?
(a) 2348
(b) 2159
(c) 2197
(d) 2295

3. Where is Richard when Hutch is forced to take off?
(a) Stuck in the Lower Temple.
(b) Unconscious in the dive room.
(c) Hanging on the cable.
(d) In his quarters below.

4. Who warns the scientists about the coming snowball?
(a) Tommy Loughery.
(b) Melanie Truscott.
(c) George Hackett.
(d) Jake Hoffer.

5. What is the Kosmik lacking as a space station?
(a) Independent propulsion.
(b) Emergency protocols.
(c) Double thick hull.
(d) Evacuation shuttles.

6. What does Harvey convey to Melanie?
(a) That Ian Helm is not responding.
(b) That they should wait another day.
(c) That he thinks they should go ahead anyway.
(d) That he doesn't care what she wants.

7. How many researchers are currently working in extrasolar stations according to the Boston Globe?
(a) Eighteen thousand.
(b) Twenty eight hundred.
(c) Eighteen hundred.
(d) Eighty thousand.

8. When Hutch regains control, what does she discover?
(a) The shuttle is damaged.
(b) Richard is gone.
(c) That she is way off course.
(d) The chases fell out.

9. Where is Hutch?
(a) Sitting on the surface waiting to evacuate the last members.
(b) Orbiting low, waiting for a call to come in.
(c) In the southern region trying to reach Helm.
(d) On board Wincklemann praying they get to the shuttle.

10. Why is Jake reluctant to do as Harvey asks?
(a) He is unwilling to waste the water.
(b) Its size will cause tsunami like forces.
(c) It is too early.
(d) It has to be smaller to work.

11. What does no one on board the Wincklemann realize?
(a) How much damage was sustained to the shuttle.
(b) How badly Maggie feels.
(c) How deeply Richard's death affects Hutch.
(d) How much guilt Melanie feels.

12. What is the terraforming project called?
(a) Project Life.
(b) Project Renewal.
(c) Project Hope.
(d) Project Rebirth.

13. What does Hutch ask Melanie for?
(a) Three hours extra.
(b) One day extra.
(c) One hour extra.
(d) Two hours extra.

14. Where is the first sign of the beginning of the terraforming?
(a) In the southern sky.
(b) In the western sky.
(c) In the northern sky.
(d) In the eastern sky.

15. What language are the symbols found written in?
(a) Iapetus.
(b) Nok.
(c) Oz.
(d) Quraquat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard try to convince Caseway to do on Ed's behalf before leaving for Quraqua?

2. How many 'tugboats' are pulling snowballs into orbit around Quraqua?

3. What is the name of the shuttle that Hutch pilots and Richard hitches a ride on?

4. When is the Temple of Winds uncovered?

5. Who were the Scrivners?

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