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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The midshipmen head to what location, beneath the museum, to defend against the troops?
(a) The basement.
(b) The subway.
(c) The service tunnels.
(d) The cellar.

2. When the Moties contact the Lenin, where did the lifeboats go and were destroyed?
(a) Into the Motie ship.
(b) Into an asteroid.
(c) Into the sun.
(d) Into the atmosphere of the planet.

3. Where do the midshipmen crash their lifeboats?
(a) Into a building.
(b) Into a lake.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In a farming area.

4. What is waiting for the Lenin on the other side of the jump point?
(a) A transport ship.
(b) A message sloop.
(c) A carrier ship.
(d) A cargo sloop.

5. What has to be overloaded before the Lenin can destroy the MacArthur?
(a) The Armstrong Field.
(b) The Durston Field.
(c) The Bass Field.
(d) The Langston Field.

6. How does Porter die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) A bullet.
(c) Beheading.
(d) A laser gun.

7. Who goes to Rob's cabin to interrupt his doldrums?
(a) Cargill.
(b) Kutuzov.
(c) Sally.
(d) Kevin.

8. Rod is concerned that he might lose what based on how he votes on the Motie counteroffer?
(a) His awards.
(b) Sally.
(c) His rank.
(d) His title.

9. When the Motie ambassadors realize their revelation about their lifespan is distressing to the humans, they suggest what?
(a) That the humans find a cure.
(b) That they might be wrong in their estimates.
(c) That the humans forget it.
(d) A recess.

10. In the story Charlie tells, the condemned man is given a year to make what happen?
(a) A horse sing.
(b) A frog sing.
(c) A sheep sing.
(d) A dog sing.

11. Who isn't convinced that the Moties have established reproduction control?
(a) Sally.
(b) Fowler.
(c) Rod.
(d) Senator Fowler.

12. When a ship launches from More Prime and says they are carrying Ambassadors, what happens?
(a) The embassy ship destroys the other Motie ship.
(b) The Lenin destroys the embassy ship.
(c) The Lenin destroys the ship with the Ambassadors.
(d) Communication is cut off.

13. Once the discussion opens on the Motie counteroffer, Renner wants to know what?
(a) If reproduction control will be present in each colony.
(b) If all classes of Moties will be in each colony.
(c) If each colony will be easily defended.
(d) If each colony will be self-sufficient.

14. Kevin will serve as Bury's what?
(a) Personal merchant Captain.
(b) Personal jailer.
(c) Personal navigator.
(d) Personal liaison.

15. Ivan panics because he realizes the Commission wants to do what?
(a) Force reproduction control on the Moties.
(b) Imprison the Moties.
(c) Enslave the Moties.
(d) Destroy the Moties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who figures out the combination lock on the large building where the men meet after crashing their pods?

2. Who suggests that the Moties are so well adapted to free-fall that something allowed these adaptations to occur?

3. The creatures in the pictures that Kevin flashes at the negotiations are all what?

4. What do the men sent to the MacArthur to set the self-destruct sequence have to take to get off the MacArthur?

5. How many men are sent to the MacArthur to set the self-destruct sequence in motion?

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