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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Through the Tunnel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Rod's knife?
(a) Mack the Knife.
(b) Lady Macbeth.
(c) Colonel Bowie.
(d) Bluebeard.

2. What sort of gun does Rod obtain from the school armorer, prior to leaving Earth for his final exam?
(a) A Thunderbolt.
(b) A Pluton Flare.
(c) None.
(d) A needle gun with poison pellets.

3. What sort of entrée does Rod enjoy during his meal at home in Chapter 2?
(a) Tofu, molded in the shape of a chicken drumstick.
(b) Soy meatballs with wheat pasta.
(c) Turkey patties with bacon.
(d) A yeast cutlet, molded to look like a chop.

4. What does Dr. Ramsbotham's invention allow people to do?
(a) By allowing themselves to be frozen, people can wait for terminal illnesses to be curable.
(b) By using special viewers, people can experience virtual travel.
(c) By stepping through a gate, people can travel through time.
(d) By stepping through a gate, people can be transported hundreds or thousands of miles in seconds.

5. In Chapter 1, how does Rod describe his classmate, Caroline?
(a) A quiet girl, engaged to be married.
(b) Dim-witted and unprepared.
(c) A big Zulu girl.
(d) Too skittish to survive in unknown surroundings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Rod leaves for his exam, Helen reminds him that more people have died from what than from bleeding to death?

2. In Chapter 2, Rod's sister Helen has come home from where?

3. How does Rod travel from school to home?

4. At Emigrants' Gap, Rod watches emigrants from the Australasian Republic being sent to a destination planet known as what?

5. Which student chooses number two in the drawing, for entering the gate to the unknown planet?

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