Seveneves Quiz

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President Flaherty illegally flees Earth in an experimental Space Shuttle-like craft, and must be rescued by Ivy Xiao and Dinah MacQuarie, who literally want to kill her for this stunt. Why? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

The two women strongly object to Flaherty's nuking the protesters.

Because Flaherty has selfishly squandered a billion-dollar piece of hardware.

The Cloud Ark and its hundreds of arklets must waste precious fuel reserved for avoidance of lunar debris in order to move out of Flaherty's reckless course.

Ivy and Dinah know Flaherty will attempt to usurp command from Markus Leuker.

Parts of the International Space Station ("Izzy") are being retrofitted with spinning torus (doughnut-shaped) modules to provide simulated gravity. Why is this important? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

Zero-gravity negatively affects bone density, muscle mass, eyeball shape (hence vision), and other systems.

So crew members can eat solid food without choking.

To improve computing efficiency.

Clear thinking in zero-gee is nearly impossible.

All moon fragments, except Peach Pit, constantly collide and break into smaller pieces that threaten Earth. Why is Peach Pit resistant? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

It's the moon's primordial iron core. The other chunks are conventional rocks.

It follows a different orbit.

It has local gravity.

Some mysterious force repels debris.

Dr. Dubois argues with journalist Tavistock Prowse, who believes humans will quickly adjust to life in space. Dubois disagrees. The solution is to get back to nature where we came from. According to Prowse, Dubois is wrong. Why? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

Dubois romanticizes everything.

Prowse is an opinionated bore.

Humans have evolved beyond the simple needs of food, water, and sex, and have enormous capacities for adaptability and survival under high levels of uncertainty.

Prowse wants a spot on ISS, and will do anything to discredit Dubois.

Why are the Red faction (descendants of those who broke away from the Cloud Ark) so solicitous of the Diggers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Because all Reds are descendants of Rufus MacQuarie.

They wish to reap the rewards and accolades for making first contact.

To make up for destruction—via ocean floor strip-mining—wrought upon the Pingers (Old Earth undersea survivors, descended from nuclear submarine commander Cal Blankenship).

The Diggers have iron reserves much needed in habitat-ring construction.