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David Brin's "Startide Rising" Quiz

"Startide Rising" is the second book in the dramatic "Uplift" Saga. It makes three hundred pages seem like ten.

A multiple-choice quiz by ilyahna. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
ilyahna

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
200,478

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
143

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Question 1 of 10

1. What do the Earthlings find that piques the interest of numerous Galactic races and begins an interstellar war? Hint

a derelict fleet of spaceships the size of moons

a new species that can warp reality to create wormholes

a planet thought to be uninhabited, which in fact is not

an uncharted system with a high mineral yield

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of these "Streaker" crew members is not a neo-dolphin? Hint

Akki

Hikahi

Toshio

Takkata-Jim

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who or what is "Keneenk?" Hint

an uplifted race subservient to the Soro

a school of discipline, combining logic with the Whale Dream

a specific type of probability drive

a language which developed between humans and dolphins

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the Galactic races' biggest problem with mankind? Hint

they are destructive and vindictive

they ally themselves with the much hated Tymbrimi

they uplifed mere aquatic mammals to the status of client race

they have no patron race to speak of

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of these elements does the planet Kithrup possess in more abundance than Earth? Hint

oxygen

metal

hydrogen

carbon-dioxide

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the big secret surrounding the massive fin K'tha-jon? Hint

he had been bought by Soro spies

his genetic material more closely resembles a human's

he is responsible for an attempt on the life of the captain

his "stenos" genes are spliced with orca genetic material

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the special ability of the Epsiarchs? Hint

they are able to accurately predict the future

they are adaptable to both air and water

they are able to create alternate realities with the sheer force of denial

they can exist in a vacuum without a suit

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of these characters was not a member of "Streaker's" crew to be left behind on Kithrup? Hint

Tom Orley

Hikahi

Credeikei

Jill Baskin

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Question 9 of 10

9. From which alien species did the Streaker crew appropriate a ship to use as a shell during their escape from Kithrup? Hint

Tymbrimi

Tandu

Thennanin

Soro

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Question 10 of 10

10. What did Toshio decide to name the presapient amphibians that the crew found on Kithrup? Hint

Kiqui

Pila

Karrank%

Kithrupians

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What do the Earthlings find that piques the interest of numerous Galactic races and begins an interstellar war?

Answer: a derelict fleet of spaceships the size of moons

The derelict fleet is rumored to be the abandoned remains of the Progenitors, the alien species thought to be the first sentient race.

2. Which of these "Streaker" crew members is not a neo-dolphin?

Answer: Toshio

Toshio Iwashika is a human midshipman, who grew up on the waterworld of Calafia and whose best friend was the fin Akki.

3. Who or what is "Keneenk?"

Answer: a school of discipline, combining logic with the Whale Dream

This method of mental discipline is used aboard the ship to help bridge the natural thought processes of dolphins with those of humans.

4. What is the Galactic races' biggest problem with mankind?

Answer: they have no patron race to speak of

Every Galactic race has at one point been a client race, uplifted by a patron and required to serve that patron for a specified number of centuries. Humans achieved the status of patron race without ever having undergone this traditional process. Their subsequent discovery of the Derelict Fleet prompted many to surmise that humans had been uplifted and then abandoned by the fabled Progenitors, which would place humans in the top of a fanatic heirarchy.

5. Which of these elements does the planet Kithrup possess in more abundance than Earth?

Answer: metal

On Kithrup, creatures are strangely both organic and metal-based. After being in the water for any extended period of time, members of "Streaker's" crew must undergo a process to remove excess metals from their systems to prevent them being poisoned.

6. What is the big secret surrounding the massive fin K'tha-jon?

Answer: his "stenos" genes are spliced with orca genetic material

Dr. Metz's prize experiment was K'tha-jon. The fin's genes were heavily spliced with those of a killer whale. The result was not, however, a reliable officer, but a creature that lost his sentient judgement to a violent, uncontrollable urge to hunt and kill.

7. What is the special ability of the Epsiarchs?

Answer: they are able to create alternate realities with the sheer force of denial

These representatives of a Tandu client race are known as "psychic adepts," and are the basis of what is known as a "probability drive." These creatures can, with their psychic ability, deny the reality set before them so concretely that it becomes something else, allowing "tears" in the space-time continuum through which a ship can pass.

8. Which of these characters was not a member of "Streaker's" crew to be left behind on Kithrup?

Answer: Jill Baskin

Jill, Tom Orley's wife, piloted the disguised Streaker away from Kithrup and toward relative safety.

9. From which alien species did the Streaker crew appropriate a ship to use as a shell during their escape from Kithrup?

Answer: Thennanin

They hollowed out a Thennanin war cruiser that had crashed early in the story and used it to fool the battleships waiting in orbit.

10. What did Toshio decide to name the presapient amphibians that the crew found on Kithrup?

Answer: Kiqui

When Streaker took off, they took several of the newly discovered race, so that hopefully humans could claim uplift rights on the species.

Source: Author ilyahna

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