View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Casey say the oldest scrap of time land is?
(a) No more than a hundred thousand years old.
(b) No more than five million years old.
(c) No more than one million years old.
(d) No more than two million years old.

2. What is the good thing about the elasticized trousers?
(a) They keep his body safe from the difference in atmospheric pressure.
(b) They keep blood in his head between weightlessness and gravity.
(c) All of these.
(d) They keep him from wetting himself.

3. How does Sable sleep?
(a) With her head on her hands.
(b) With her head rested on Kolya's shoulder.
(c) With her mouth open and drooling.
(d) With one eye open.

4. Who does Alexander the Great regard as his only true love of his life?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Eumenes.
(c) Hephaistion.
(d) Helen of Troy.

5. How many volcanoes are there in the Cascades?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Forty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Macedonians call the Discontinuity?

2. What does Kolya look for to provide him with reassurance?

3. What date does Josh think it is?

4. What space shuttle does Kolya remember?

5. What do the Oikumens hope to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the phone fail to reveal all the information?

2. What things disgust both Kolya and Sable?

3. What is the Mongol way of conquest?

4. What moment has Musa been waiting for?

5. Describe Lahore.

6. Why does being out of contact spook Bisesa?

7. What does Ruddy say in regards to Bisesa's position on morality?

8. Why does the crew of the Soyuz have to land near people?

9. Where does Bisesa live as a child and what happens to that place?

10. Why is the ride in the Bird uncomfortable?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 880 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample