Seveneves Quiz

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What is the distinction between Kath Two's Survey team, and the other known as Snake Eaters? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Survey is forbidden contact with newly-seeded life. Snake Eaters monitor progress of ecosystems.

Survey measures landscapes for future habitats. Snake Eaters raise serpent-like creatures as food-stock.

Survey is an earth-science team. Snake Eaters are special-ops military.

Kath Two's team are list-makers. Snake Eaters are tasked with weeding out dangerous life-forms.

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 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.

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

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

Why is Crater Lake, Oregon, with views of blue water, snowy mountains and pines, selected for international dignitaries' end-times announcement to the media? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

The gorgeous vista symbolizes nature triumphing over cosmic catastrophe.

The dignitaries want a decadent eating-and-drinking experience in the famous lodge.

The media demanded it.

Because the park is far removed from populated areas.

When the Diggers (descendants of Old Earth's Rufus MacQuarie) are discovered to have survived underground 5,000 years after Hard Rain, why is their leader hostile toward Spacers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

He hates Spacers for their cowardly abandonment of the planet.

He fears losing control and authority over his womb-like world.

He resents Spacers' "reclaiming" a world no longer theirs.

Spacers have killed Diggers.

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)

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

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

Because all Reds are descendants of Rufus MacQuarie.

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).