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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Helen's knife?
(a) Lady Macbeth.
(b) Bluebeard.
(c) Mack the Knife.
(d) Colonel Bowie.
2. What is unusual about Rod Walker's family home, as compared with newer homes in the area?
(a) The Walkers' home contains a bomb shelter.
(b) The Walkers' home features an above-ground living room.
(c) The Walkers' home is larger than most.
(d) The Walkers' home is adjacent to a transport tunnel.
3. What is the name of Rod's knife?
(a) Colonel Bowie.
(b) Mack the Knife.
(c) Bluebeard.
(d) Lady Macbeth.
4. At Emigrants' Gap, Rod watches emigrants from the Australasian Republic being sent to a destination planet known as what?
(a) Luna.
(b) Heavenly Mountains.
(c) Terra.
(d) Liberty Canyon.
5. Rod and Jack eat what sort of meat, when they first meet?
(a) Raw rabbit.
(b) Roasted duck.
(c) Roasted buck.
(d) Raw buck.
Short Answer Questions
1. What revelation does Jimmy make at the end of Chapter 6 regarding Jack that shocks Rod?
2. What does Dr. Ramsbotham's invention allow people to do?
3. What trick does Jack use before entering the shelter, to ensure no animals are lurking within?
4. What does Rod eat for dinner his first night on the unknown planet?
5. How does Rod travel from school to home?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why has Rod's sister, Helen, returned home to be with the family in Chapter 2?
2. How does Rod first encounter a student worthy of partnership?
3. Which students does Rod consider taking as a partner for his final exam, and why does he ultimately reject each?
4. Why is Chapter 2 titled, "The Fifth Way?"
5. Where does Rod decide to sleep during his first night on an unknown planet, and what unforeseen difficulty does he experience?
6. What strange sound prevents Rod from sleeping comfortably during his first night on the unknown planet?
7. What unusual phenomenon do Jack and Rod see in the sky at the end of Chapter 5, in addition to the pentagonal constellation?
8. At the end of Chapter 7, who joins Rod, Jack, and Jimmy in their cave settlement?
9. Why does Helen advise Rod not to carry a gun during his survival final exam on an unknown planet?
10. List several ways in which the futuristic Earth of "Tunnel in the Sky" differs from our present-day planet.
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