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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Wincklemann unable to help?

2. What is the name of the city Richard and Hutch explore from the Alpha shuttle first?

3. What is the terraforming project called?

4. How high is the wave in the deep sea?

5. Who goes up in Hutch's next load?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues make it harder than anticipated to recover the printing press from the Lower Temple.

2. When Richard asks Caseway to delay the schedule for terraforming Quraqua, what does Caseway admit that horrifies Richard?

3. Why does Cal make the decision to marry someone else although it is clear he still has deep feelings for Hutch?

4. What questions does Hutch have about the snowball dropped on them by Melanie?

5. What issue does the Boston Globe bemoan?

6. Why had the excavation of the Lower Temple been so important?

7. Who does Janet run into as she is leaving her quarters with her baggage and what does she remember of the incident?

8. What is Maggie doing on board the Wincklemann?

9. What is the purpose behind Harvey Sill wanting to drop one of the snowballs into the Southern Sea known as the Yakata while the scientists are still working in the Lower Temple?

10. What events conspire against Hutch, slowing down her return to the surface one last time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Hutch realize after studying all of the figures and locations that are related to the discontinuities? Who does she share this information with first? What does she think they can accomplish? Why is she so sure that her plan will work, and how much time do they have to accomplish their task? What questions will this answer if it works?

Essay Topic 2

What equipment do Hutch and Frank request from Melanie and the Catherine Perch? Who approves the equipment loan and what will it be used for? What else is loaned other than equipment? What ship do Hutch and Frank have access to, and who grants them permission to do so? How long after the Catherine Perch arrives did this ship come? What is the second ship's original mandate?

Essay Topic 3

Who were the Monument Makers? What evidence of their existence is found by those exploring space afterward? What mystery surrounds their existence? What did they look like, and how do those who follow much later come to this conclusion? What similarities were discovered in monuments on Quraquat and on Iapetus? What conclusions were drawn as a result of this discovery?

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