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 Chapter 7 Arrays

Section 7.1 Creating and Using Arrays

1. After the following Dim statement is executed, how many elements will the array myVar
have?
Dim myVar(7) As Double
(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 8
(D) 9
C

2. In the line of code

Dim scores() As Integer = {55, 33, 12}

the upper bound of the array scores is which of the following?

(A) 2
(B) 1
(C) 11
(D) 0
A

3. Each individual variable in the list

student(0), student(1), student(2)
is known as a(n)
(A) subscript.
(B) dimension.
(C) element.
(D) type.
C

4. In the statement
Dim scores(30) As Double

the number 30 designates which of the following?

(A) the highest value of the subscripts of the elements for the array scores
(B) the maximum value that can be assigned to any element in the array scores
(C) the data type for the array scores
(D) the value initially assigned to each element in the array scores
A

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5. Which statement is true regarding the following Dim statement?
Dim states(49) As String, populations(49) As Double
(A) It is invalid since more than one array is dimensioned by a single Dim statement.
(B) It is invalid since the two arrays must have the same data type.
(C) The subscripts of states range from 1 to 49.
(D) The subscripts of populations range from 0 to 49.
D

6. The Count method returns what information about an array?

(A) the highest number that can be used as a subscript for the array
(B) the largest value that can be assigned to an array element
(C) the number of elements in the array
(D) The highest dimension of the array
C

7. In the line of code (where score is an array)

For index As Integer = 0 to (score.Count - 1)

the Count method is used to carry out which of the following tasks?
(A) determine the largest value for each of the elements
(B) determine the largest subscript in the array
(C) determine the smallest value for each of the elements
(D) declare a new array with the name Count
B

8. The ReDim statement causes an array to lose its current contents unless the word ReDim is
followed by the keyword
(A) CInt
(B) MyBase
(C) Preserve
(D) Add
C

9. Like other variables, array variables can be declared and assigned initial values at the same
time. (T/F)
T

10. After an array has been declared, its type (but not its size) can be changed with a ReDim
statement. (T/F)
F

11. If you use the ReDim statement to make an array smaller than it was, data in the eliminated
elements can be retrieved by using the Preserve keyword. (T/F)
F

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12. The statement Dim nums(2) As Integer = {5, 6, 7} declares an array of three
elements. (T/F)
F

13. What will be the size of the array stones after the following two lines of code are executed?
Dim stones() As String = {"Watts", "Jagger", "Wood", "Richards"}
ReDim Preserve stones(10)
11

14. The statement

Dim newlist(10) As String

is used to declare an array where each element has the value 10. (T/F)
F

15. In the line of code

Function Sum(scores() As Integer) As Integer

the pair of parentheses that follows scores can be removed. (T/F)

F

16. In the line of code

Dim scores() As Integer = {55, 33, 12}

the upper bound of the array scores is 12. (T/F)

F

17. What two names are displayed in the list box when the button is clicked on?
Dim krispies(2) as String

Private Sub frmCereal_Load(...) Handles MyBase.Load

krispies(0) = "snap"
krispies(1) = "crackle"
krispies(2) = "pop"
End Sub
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
lstBox.Items.Add(krispies.Max)
lstBox.Items.Add(krispies.Last)
End Sub
(A) crackle and pop
(B) crackle and snap
(C) snap and crackle
(D) snap and pop
D

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18. What two numbers are displayed in the list box when the button is clicked on?
Dim nums(2) as Integer

Private Sub frmNumbers_Load(...) Handles MyBase.Load

nums(0) = 5
nums(1) = 3
nums(2) = 4
End Sub
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
lstBox.Items.Add(nums.Average)
lstBox.Items.Add(nums.Max)
End Sub
(A) 4 and 5
(B) 4 and 4
(C) 3 and 5
(D) 3 and 4
A

19. Either a For...Next loop or a For Each loop can be used to display every other value from an
array in a list box. (T/F)
F

20. An array can contain both numeric and string values. (T/F)
F

21. A Function procedure can return a number, but cannot return an array of numbers. (T/F)
F

22. What names are displayed in the list box when the button is clicked on?
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
Dim names() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data.txt")
lstBox.Items.Clear()
For i As Integer = (names.Count - 1) To 0 Step -2
lstBox.Items.Add(names(i))
Next
End Sub
Assume the five lines of the file Data.txt contain the following entries: Bach, Borodin,
Brahms, Beethoven, Britain.
(A) Bach, Brahms, and Britain
(B) Britain, Beethoven, Brahms, Borodin, and Bach
(C) Bach, Borodin, Brahms, Beethoven, and Britain
(D) Britain, Brahms, and Bach
D

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23. What names are displayed in the list box when the button is clicked on?
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
Dim file As String = "Ships.txt"
Dim ships() As String = FillArray(file)
lstBox.Items.Add(ships(2))
lstBox.Items.Add(ships.Min)
End Sub

Function FillArray(file As String) As String()

Dim names() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines(file)
Return names
End Function
Assume the three lines of the file Ships.txt contain the following entries: Pinta, Nina, Santa
Maria.
(A) Pinta and Nina
(B) Santa Maria and Pinta
(C) Nina and Santa Maria
(D) Santa Maria and Nina
D

24. What numbers are displayed in the list box when the button is clicked on?
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
Dim file As String = "Beatles.txt"
Dim fabFour() As String = FillArray(file)
lstBox.Items.Add(Array.IndexOf(fabFour, "Ringo")
lstBox.Items.Add(fabFour.Count - 1)
End Sub

Function FillArray(file As String) As String()

Dim names() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines(file)
Return names
End Function

Assume the four lines of the file Beatles.txt contain the following entries: John, Paul, Ringo,
George.
(A) 3 and 3
(B) 3 and 4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 2 and 4
C

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25. What names are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim newYork As String = "Manhatten,Bronx,Brooklyn,Queens,Staten Island"
Dim boroughs() As String = newYork.Split(","c)
lstBox.Items.Add(boroughs(0))
lstBox.Items.Add(boroughs.Min)

(A) Brooklyn and Queens

(B) Manhatten and Staten Island
(C) Bronx and Manhatten
(D) Manhatten and Bronx
D

26. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers As String = "1492,1776,1945"
Dim temp() As String = numbers.Split(","c)
Dim nums(2) As Integer
For i As Integer = 0 to 2
nums(i) = CInt(temp(i))
Next
lstBox.Items.Add(nums(1))
lstBox.Items.Add(nums.First)

(A) 1776 and 1492

(B) 1776 and 1776
(C) 1492 and 1492
(D) 1945 and 1492
A

27. What is the output of the following program segment?

Dim nums(8) As Integer
Dim total As Double = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To 8
nums(i) = i
Next
For k As Integer = 1 To 4
total += 10 ^ nums(k)
Next
txtBox.Text = CStr(total)

(A) 10000
(B) 11110
(C) 1110
(D) 0
B

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28. What will be displayed when the following program segment is executed?
Dim temp() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data.txt")
Dim n As Integer = temp.Count - 1
Dim a(n) As Double
For k As Integer = 0 To n
a(k) = CDbl(temp(i))
Next
txtBox.Text = CStr(a(3))
Assume the five rows of the file Data.txt contain the following entries: 3, 2, 5, 1, 4.
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
A

29. What is the output of the following program segment?

Dim temp() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data.txt")
Dim n As Integer = temp.Count - 1
Dim numbers(n) As Double, h As Double = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To n
numbers(i) = CDbl(temp(i))
Next
For k As Integer = 0 to n
h += numbers(k)
Next
txtBox.Text = CStr(h)
Assume the four rows of the file Data.txt contain the following entries: 2, 4, 2, 3
(A) 11
(B) 2
(C) 7
(D) 4
A

30. Given the Dim statement below, which set of statements will initialize all elements of
myArray to 100?
Dim myArray(100) As Double

(A) myArray = 100

(B) For i As Integer = 0 To 100
(i) = 100
Next
(C) For j As Integer = 0 to 100
myArray(j) = 100
Next
(D) myArray() is already initialized to 100 by the Dim statement.
C

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31. What is the output of the following program segment?
Dim c As Double
Dim temp() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data1.txt")
Dim n As Integer = temp.Count - 1
Dim a(n) As Double
For i As Integer = 0 To n
a(i) = CDbl(temp(i))
Next
temp() = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data2.txt")
Dim b(n) As Double
For i As Integer = 0 To n
b(i) = CDbl(temp(i))
Next
For k As Integer = 0 To n
If a(k) = b(k) Then
c += 1
End If
Next
lstBox.Items.Add(c)
Assume the twenty rows of the file Data1.txt contain the following entries: 3, 2, 5, 1, 7, 8, 3,
5, 6, 2, 3, 6, 1, 6, 5, 5, 7, 2, 5, 3.
Assume the twenty rows of the file Data2.txt contain the following entries: 5, 3, 3, 4, 8, 2, 3,
5, 9, 5, 3, 7, 3, 7, 6, 3, 2, 1, 3, 4.
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 6
B

32. What is displayed in the message box by the following code?

Dim message As String
Dim teamNames() As String = {"Packers", "Jets", "Seahawks"}
ReDim Preserve teamNames(1)
message = teamNames(1)
MessageBox.Show(message)
(A) Packers
(B) Jets
(C) Seahawks
(D) 2
B

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33. If the following statement appears in a program, the array scores must have been declared
using the String data type. (T/F)
scores(1) = 87
F

34. Consider the following Dim and assignment statements for myArray(). The assignment
statement will cause a "Subscript out of range" error. (T/F)
Dim myArray(50) As Double
myArray(34) = 51
F

35. Unless otherwise specified, Visual Basic assigns the value 0 to each element of a numeric
array when it is declared with a Dim statement. (T/F)
T

36. The following pair of statement is valid. (T/F)

Dim x = CInt(InputBox("Enter number of items (must be a positive integer)"))
ReDim myArray(x - 1)
T

37. A fractional number such as 4.6 is not allowed as a subscript. (T/F)

T

38. Consider the following Visual Basic statements:

Dim nums(4) As Double
For index As Integer = 0 To 4
nums(index) = 1 + (index * 2)
Next
What values are placed in the array by the above statements? (Show each element of the
array and the value for that element.)
nums(0)=1, nums(1)=3, nums(2)=5, nums(3)=7, nums(4)=9

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38. What is the output of the following program when the button is clicked on?
Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(...) Handles btnDisplay.Click
Dim result As Double
Dim number(4) As Double
FillArray(number)
result = SumArray(number)
txtBox.Text = CStr(result)
End Sub
Sub FillArray(ByRef anyArray() As Double)
Dim temp() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Data.txt")
For i As Integer = 0 To 4
anyArray(i) = CDbl(temp(i))
Next
End Sub
Function SumArray(anyArray() As Double) As Double
Dim total As Double
total = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To 4 Step 2
total += anyArray(i)
Next
Return total
End Function
Assume the five rows of the file Data.txt contain the following entries: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
(A) 0
(B) 25
(C) 15
(D) None of the above
C

39. Which of the tasks is the Join function used to carry out in the following statement?
Dim line As String
line = Join(strArrData, ",")
(A) Join concatenates the values of all elements of the array strArrData, and adds a comma
delimiter between successive values.
(B) Join concatenates the values of all elements of line, and adds a comma to the end of the
line.
(C) Join parses or separates out all items of text that are delimited by a comma in
strArrData.
(D) Join parses or separates out all items of text that are delimited by a comma in line.
A

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Section 7.2 Using LINQ with Arrays
1. What names are displayed in the list box by the following lines of code?

Dim oceans() As String = {"Atlantic", "Pacific", "Indian", "Arctic",

"Antartic"}
Dim query = From ocean in oceans
Where ocean.Length = 6
Select ocean
For Each ocean As String In query
lstBox.Items.Add(ocean)
Next
(A) Pacific and Indian
(B) Indian and Arctic
(C) Indian
(D) Atlantic and Pacific
B

2. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers() As Integer = {4, 7, 9, 3, 1}
Dim query = From number in numbers
Where number > 6
Select number
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Count)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Average)
(A) 5 and 12
(B) 2 and 12
(C) 2 and 8
(D) 5 and 8
C

3. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers() As Integer = {4, 7, 9, 3, 1, 9, 7}
Dim query = From number in numbers
Where number > 6
Select number
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Count)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Average)

(A) 7 and 12
(B) 4 and 8
(C) 2 and 12
(D) 7 and 8
B

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4. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers() As Integer = {4, 7, 9, 3, 1, 7, 7}
Dim query = From number in numbers
Where number > 6
Select number
Distinct
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Count)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Average)
(A) 5 and 12
(B) 2 and 12
(C) 2 and 8
(D) 5 and 8
C

5. What states are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim states() As String = {"Colorado", "New Mexico", "Arizona", "Utah"}
Dim query = From state in states
Where ContainsE(state)
Select state
For Each state in query
lstBox.Items.Add(state)
Next

Function ContainsE(word As String) As Boolean

If word.IndexOf("E") <> -1 Or word.IndexOf("e") <> -1 Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function
(A) Colorado
(B) New Mexico
(C) Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah
(D) No states
B

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6. What states are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim states() As String = {"Colorado", "New Mexico", "Arizona", "Utah"}
Dim query = From state in states
Where state.length < 5
Select state.ToUpper
For Each state in query
lstBox.Items.Add(state)
Next

(A) Utah
(B) COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, UTAH
(C) UTAH
(D) No states
C

7. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim states() As String = {"Colorado", "New Mexico", "Arizona", "Utah"}
Dim query = From state in states
Where state.EndsWith("o")
Select state.Length
For Each number in query
lstBox.Items.Add(number)
Next

(A) 8 and 10
(B) 8, 10, 7, 4
(C) 8
(D) 29
A

8. What names are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim tonightShow() As String = {"Allen", "Parr", "Carson", "Leno",
"O'Brien", "Leno"}
Dim query = From host in tonightShow
Where host.Length = 4
Select host
Distinct
For Each host in query
lstBox.Items.Add(host)
Next

(A) Parr, Leno, Leno

(B) Parr, Leno
(C) Leno
(D) No names
B

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9. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers() As Double = {.5, 1, 2, 2.5}
Dim query = From number in numbers
Where number < 2
Let FormattedPer = number.ToString("P")
Select FormattedPer
For Each percent In query
lstBox.Items.Add(percent)
Next
(A) .5 and 1
(B) 50% and 100%
(C) 50.00%, 100.00%, 200.00%, 250.00%
(D) 50.00% and 100.00%
D

10. What years are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim years() As Integer = {1492, 1776, 1840, 1929, 1945, 2005}
Dim query = From year in years
Where Is20thCentury(year)
Select year
For Each yr in query
lstBox.Items.Add(yr)
Next

Function Is20thCentury(num As Integer) As Boolean

If (num >= 1900) and (num < 2000) Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End IF
End Function
(A) 1929 and 1945
(B) 1929
(C) 1492, 1776, 1840, 1929, 1945, 2005
(D) No years
A

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11. What states are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim states() As String = {"Colorado", "New Mexico", "Arizona", "Utah"}
Dim query = From state in states
Order By state Ascending
Select state
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Min)

(A) Arizona and Colorado

(B) Arizona and Utah
(C) Colorado and Arizona
(D) Arizona and Arizona
D

12. What words are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim deadlySins() As String = {"pride", "greed", "anger", "envy",
"lust", "gluttony", "sloth"}
Dim query = From sin in deadlySins
Order By sin Ascending
Where sin.StartsWith("g")
Select sin
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Max)

(A) gluttony and greed

(B) gluttony and gluttony
(C) pride and gluttony
(D) greed and greed
A

13. What words are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim deadlySins() As String = {"pride", "greed", "anger", "envy",
"lust", "gluttony", "sloth"}
Dim query = From sin in deadlySins
Order By sin.Length Descending
Select sin.ToUpper
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Min)

(A) GLUTTONY and GLUTTONY

(B) GLUTTONY and SLOTH
(C) GLUTTONY and ANGER
(D) PRIDE and ENVY
C

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14. What colleges are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim ivies() As String = {"Harvard", "Princeton", "Yale", "Dartmouth",
"Brown", "Columbia", "Univ. of PA", "Cornell"}
Dim query = From college in ivies
Order By college Descending
Select college
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Min)

(A) Yale and Brown

(B) Yale and Yale
(C) Brown and Brown
(D) Harvard and Brown
A

15. What colleges are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim ivies() As String = {"Harvard", "Princeton", "Yale", "Dartmouth",
"Brown", "Columbia", "Univ. of PA", "Cornell"}
Dim query = From college in ivies
Where college.Length <= 9
Order By college.Length Descending, college Descending
Select college
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Last)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Min)

(A) Dartmouth and Princeton

(B) Yale and Brown
(C) Yale and Cornell
(D) Dartmouth and Yale
B

16. What colleges are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim ivies() As String = {"Harvard", "Princeton", "Yale", "Dartmouth",
"Brown", "Columbia", "Univ. of PA", "Cornell"}
Dim query = From college in ivies
Where college.Length <= 9
Order By college.Length Descending, college Ascending
Select college
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First)
lstBox.Items.Add(query.Max)

(A) Dartmouth and Princeton

(B) Yale and Brown
(C) Yale and Cornell
(D) Dartmouth and Yale
D

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17. What words are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim dimensions() As String = {"width", "height", "depth"}
Dim query = From dimension in dimensions
Order By dimension.Length Descending, dimension Ascending
Select dimension
lstBox.DataSource = query.ToList
lstBox.SelectedIndex = Nothing

(A) width, height, depth

(B) height, depth, width
(C) height, width, depth
(D) depth, width, height
B

18. What numbers are displayed in the list box by the following program segment?
Dim numbers() As Integer = {5, 79, 8, 33, 27}
Dim query = From number in numbers
Let formattedNum = number.ToString("N0")
Order By formattedNum Ascending
Select formattedNum
lstBox.DataSource = query.ToList
lstBox.SelectedIndex = Nothing

(A) 5, 8, 27, 33, 79

(B) 79, 33, 27, 8, 5
(C) 27, 33, 5, 79, 8
(D) 5, 79, 8, 33, 27
C

19. In an ascending ordered array, the value of each element is

(A) less than or equal to the value of the next element.
(B) greater than or equal to the value of the next element.
(C) equal to the value of the next element.
(D) greater than the value of the next element.
A

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20. Which of the following is NOT an example of an ordered array?
(A) years
1877 1944 2011 4301
(B) cities
Selah Wapato Yakima Zillah
(C) nbrhoods
Hockinson Brush Prairie Dollars Corner Battle Ground
(D) nums
457 457 457 458
C

21. Which of the following is an ordered descending array?

(A) years
1011 1112 1112 1377
(B) cities
Selah Wapato Yakima Zillah
(C) nbrhoods
Parkrose Hockinson Dollars Corner Battle Ground
(D) nums
459 457 457 458
C

22. Arrays are said to be ordered only if the values are in ascending order. (T/F)
F

23. Ascending is the default direction for an Order By clause. (T/F)

T

24. Searching successive elements of an ordered list beginning with the first element is known
as a binary search. (T/F)
F

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Section 7.3 Arrays of Structures

1. Consider the following structure definition. Which Dim statement would correctly declare
an array of this structure for elements having subscripts from 0 through 30?
Structure carType
Dim yr As Integer
Dim make As String
Dim model As String
End Structure
(A) You cannot have an array of structures.
(B) Dim carType(30)
(C) Dim car(30) As carType
(D) Dim carType(30) As car
C

2. Consider the following Structure definition and declaration. Which assignment statement
would correctly record that player number 13 had three home runs so far this season?
Structure playerType
Dim fullname As String
Dim team As String
Dim position As String
Dim homerun As Double
Dim average As Double
Dim rbi As Double
End Structure

Dim player(45) As playerType

(A) player(13) = 3
(B) player(13).homerun(3)
(C) playerType(13).homerun = 3
(D) player(13).homerun = 3
(E) None of the above
D

3. Suppose a structure is created with the code

Structure stateUSA
Dim capCity As String
Dim stateNum As Integer
End Structure
in the Declarations section of the Code Editor. Which of the following statements correctly
declares a variable of type stateUSA?
(A) Dim stateUSA As stateWA
(B) Dim stateWA As Structure
(C) Dim stateWA As stateUSA
(D) Dim stateWA As Member
C

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4. Suppose a structure is created with the code
Structure stateUSA
Dim capCity As String
Dim stateNum As Integer
End Structure
in the Declarations section of the Code window. The code
Dim stateWA As stateUSA
Dim message As String
stateWA.stateNum = 42
stateWA.capCity = "Olympia"
message = stateWA.capCity & " " & stateWA.stateNum
MessageBox.Show(message)
is placed in the Click event procedure for one of the program’s buttons. What output will be
displayed in the message box when the button is clicked on?
(A) 42 Olympia
(B) Olympia42
(C) 42Olympia
(D) Olympia 42
D

5. The members of a structure must all be of the same data type. (T/F)
F

6. Suppose a structure is created with the code

Structure stateUSA
Dim capCity As String
Dim yearFounded As Integer
End Structure
in the Declarations section of the Code window. In this structure, the variable capCity is
known as a member. (T/F)
T

7. Suppose a structure is created with the code

Structure stateUSA
Dim capCity As String
Dim stateNum As Integer
End Structure
in the Declarations section of the Code window. The following statement correctly makes
use of the stateNum member of this structure. (T/F)
Dim stateWA As stateUSA
StateWA.stateNum = 42
T

8. A structure can contain members that are simple variables only; members cannot be arrays.
(T/F)
F

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9. When a variable with a user-defined data type is passed to a procedure, the corresponding
parameter in the Sub or Function statement must be declared to be of the same data type.
(T/F)
T

10. Suppose a structure and an array are created with the code

Structure Nation
Dim name As String
Dim continent As String
Dim population As Double 'in millions
Dim area As Double 'in square miles
End Structure

Dim nations(192) As Nation

in the Declarations section of the Code editor and the array is filled with data for the 193
member nations of the UN. What will be displayed in the list box when the following code
is executed?
Dim query = From country In nations
Where country.continent = "Africa"
Order By country.population Descending
Select country.name
lstBox.DataSource = query.ToList
lstBox.SelectedIndex = Nothing
(A) the names of the countries in Africa in alphabetical order
(B) the names of the countries in Africa beginning with the name of the least populous
country
(C) the names of the countries in Africa beginning with the name of the most populous
country
(D) the names of the countries in Africa in reverse alphabetical order
C

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11. Suppose a structure and an array are created with the code

Structure Nation
Dim name As String
Dim continent As String
Dim population As Double 'in millions
Dim area As Double 'in square miles
End Structure

Dim nations(192) As Nation

in the Declarations section of the Code editor and the array is filled with data for the 193
member nations of the UN. What will be displayed in the list box when the following code
is executed?
Dim query = From country In nations
Order By country.area Descending
Select country.name, country.population
lstBox.Items.Add(query.First.name)
lstBox.Items.Add(1000000 * query.First.population)

(A) the name and population of the smallest country in the UN

(B) the name and population of the largest country in the UN
(C) the name and population of the least populous country in the UN
(D) the name and population of the most populous country in the UN
B

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12. Suppose a structure and an array are created with the code

Structure Nation
Dim name As String
Dim continent As String
Dim population As Double 'in millions
Dim area As Double 'in square miles
End Structure

Dim nations(191) As Nation

in the Declarations section of the Code editor and the array is filled with data for the 192
member nations of the UN. What will be displayed in the DataGridView control when the
following code is executed?
Dim query = From country In nations
Where country.population > 200
Order By country.area Descending
Select country.name, country.continent
dgvNations.DataSource = query.ToList
dgvNations.CurrentCell = Nothing
(A) Two columns, with headers name and continent. The grid will display the countries
(along with their continents) whose populations are greater than 200 million people.
The countries will be displayed in order to their population, beginning with the most
populous country.
(B) Four columns, with each row containing data about a single country whose population
is greater than 200 million people. The countries will be displayed in order of their area,
beginning with the largest country.
(C) Two columns, with headers country.name and country.continent. The grid will display
the countries (along with their continents) whose populations are greater than 200
million people. The countries will be displayed in order to their area, beginning with the
largest country.
(D) Two columns, with headers name and continent. The grid will display the countries
(along with their continents) whose populations are greater than 200 million people.
The countries will be displayed in order to their area, beginning with the largest
country.
D

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13. Suppose a structure and an array are created with the code

Structure Nation
Dim name As String
Dim continent As String
Dim population As Double 'in millions
Dim area As Double 'in square miles
End Structure

Dim nations(192) As Nation

in the Declarations section of the Code editor and the array is filled with data for the 193
member nations of the UN. What will be displayed in the DataGridView control when the
following code is executed?
Dim query = From country In nations
Where (country.continent = "Europe") And
country.name.StartsWith("S")
Let countryUC = country.name.ToUpper
Let pop = (1000000 * country.population).ToString("N0")
Let area = (country.area).ToString("N0")
Order By countryUC Ascending
Select countryUC, pop, area
dgvNations.DataSource = query.ToList
dgvNations.CurrentCell = Nothing

(A) Three columns, with headers country, population, and area. The grid will display the
countries in Europe (along with their populations and areas) whose names begin with
the letter S. The countries will be displayed capitalized in alphabetical order and their
populations and areas will be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
(B) Four columns, with headers countryUC, continent, pop, and area. The grid will display
the countries in Europe (along with their continents, populations and areas) whose
names begin with the letter S. The countries will be displayed capitalized in alphabetical
order and their populations and areas will be formatted with commas as thousands
separators.
(C) Three columns, with headers countryUC, pop, and area. The grid will display the
countries in Europe (along with their populations and areas) whose names begin with
the letter S. The countries will be displayed capitalized in alphabetical order and their
populations and areas will be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
(D) Three columns, with headers countryUC, pop, and area. The grid will display the
countries in Europe (along with their populations and areas) whose names begin with
the letter S. The countries will be displayed capitalized in reverse alphabetical order and
their populations and areas will be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
C

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14. Which of the following methods is used to change the words in a column headers of a
DataGridView control?
(A) HeaderText
(B) HeaderName
(C) HeaderContent
(D) HeaderCaption
A

Section 7.4 Two-Dimensional Arrays

1. Given the following array, what value will be assigned to num?

myArray
num = myArray(3,4) 0 1 2 3 4
0 0 1 2 3 4
1 5 6 7 8 9
2 10 11 12 13 14
3 15 16 17 18 19
4 20 21 22 23 24
(A) 19
(B) 4
(C) 24
(D) 0
(E) None of the above
A

2. Assume the array nums has been filled as shown. What is the output of the following
program segment?

nums
0 1 2 3
s = 0 |------------------------
For k As Integer = 0 To 2 0 | 2 3 4 5
s += nums(k, k + 1) |
Next 1 | 6 5 4 3
lstBox.Items.Add(s) |
2 | 2 3 4 5
|
3 | 6 5 4 3
(A) 64
(B) 12
(C) 13
(D) 25
(E) None of the above
B

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3. How many elements are in the array declared by
Dim myArray(3, 2) As Double
(A) 12
(B) 8
(C) 6
(D) 2
(E) None of the above
A

4. Which of the following types of variables is capable of holding the information contained in
a table that has four rows and four columns?
(A) one-dimensional arrays
(B) simple variables
(C) single-subscripted variables
(D) double-subscripted variables
D

5. Which of the following types of variables can only hold a single item of data?
(A) two-dimensional arrays
(B) simple variables
(C) single-subscripted variables
(D) double-subscripted variables
B

6. Which of the following declarations creates a two-dimensional array?

(A) Dim newVar(2, 2) As Double
(B) Dim newVar As Integer
(C) Dim newVar(2) As Double
(D) Dim newVar(2)
A

7. Which of the following declarations can be used to create a three-dimensional array?

(A) Dim newVar(3, 3) As Double
(B) Dim newVar(2, 2, 2) As Double
(C) Dim newVar(3) As Double
(D) Dim newVar(3)
B

8. Arrays that are capable of holding the contents of a table with several rows and columns, are
known as two-dimensional arrays or double subscripted variables. (T/F)
T

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9. The statement
Dim nextVar(3, 5) As Double
declares a two-dimensional array that can store a table containing 4 columns and 6 rows of
numeric data. (T/F)
F

10. The statement

Dim nextVar(7, 8) As Double

declares a two-dimensional array that can store a table containing 7 rows and 8 columns of
numeric data. (T/F)
F

11. A two-dimensional array can be declared and initialized at the same time. (T/F)
T

12. If the two-dimensional array nums has three rows and six columns, then the value of
nums.GetUpperBound(0) is 3 and the value of nums.GetUpperBound(1) is 6. (T/F)
F

13. In the two-dimensional array declaration

Dim newVar(,) As Double = {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 2054}, {6, 802, 2786}}
the comma in newVar(,) can be removed. (T/F)
F

14. The ReDim and Preserve keywords can be used with two-dimensional arrays. (T/F)
T

15. Arrays can only be one- or two-dimensional. (T/F)

F

16. ReDim statements cannot be used to change a one-dimensional array into a two-dimensional
array. (T/F)
T

17. ReDim statements can be used to change a one-dimensional array into a three-dimensional
array. (T/F)
F

18. Given the following statements, the first subscript in the second statement references a
column. (T/F)
Dim myArray(15, 20) As Double
myArray(5, 10) = 0
F

19. Two-dimensional arrays are often referred to as tables or matrices. (T/F)

T

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20. The third statement below is NOT valid. (T/F)
row = 5
col = 3
someArray(col, row) = 25
F

21. Write code using a For...Next loop to fill a 5-by-5 matrix so that the two diagonals have
asterisks (*) in them as shown.
0 1 2 3 4
0 * *
1 * *
2 *
3 * *
4 * *
Ans: For i As Integer = 0 to 4
matrix(i, i) = "*"
matrix(i, 4 - i) = "*"
Next

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Harker drew his knife. The forest was quiet now. Quiet but not at
rest. The skin crawled on Harker's back, over his scalp, drew tight on
his cheekbones. He passed the blade through the flame. McLaren
looked up at him. Harker said, "It's okay, Rory," and hit him carefully
on the point of the jaw. McLaren lay still. Harker stretched out the
swollen leg and went to work.

It was dawn again. He lay by the spring in the cool grass, the ashes
of his fire grey and dead beside the dark stains. He felt rested,
relaxed, and the fever seemed to have gone out of him. The air was
like wine.
He rolled over on his back. There was a wind blowing. It was a live,
strong wind, with a certain smell to it. The trees were rollicking,
almost shouting with pleasure. Harker breathed deeply. The smell,
the pure clean edge....
Suddenly he realized that the clouds were high, higher than he had
ever known them to be. The wind swept them up, and the daylight
was bright, so bright that....
Harker sprang up. The blood rushed in him. There was a stinging blur
in his eyes. He began to run, toward a tall tree, and he flung himself
upward into the branches and climbed, recklessly, into the swaying
top.
The bowl of the valley lay below him, green, rich, and lovely. The
grey granite cliffs rose around it, grew higher in the direction from
which the wind blew. Higher and higher, and beyond them, far
beyond, were mountains, flung towering against the sky.
On the mountains, showing through the whipping veils of cloud,
there was snow, white and cold and blindingly pure, and as Harker
watched there was a gleam, so quick and fleeting that he saw it more
with his heart than with his eyes....
Sunlight. Snowfields, and above them, the sun.
After a long time he clambered down again into the silence of the
glade. He stood there, not moving, seeing what he had not had time
to see before.
Rory McLaren was gone. Both packs, with food and climbing ropes
and bandages and flint-and-steel were gone. The short spears were
gone. Feeling on his hip, Harker found nothing but bare flesh. His
knife and even his breech-clout had been taken.
A slender, exquisite body moved forward from the shadows of the
trees. Huge white blossoms gleamed against the curly blue that
crowned the head. Luminous eyes glanced up at Harker, full of
mockery and a subtle animation. Button smiled.
Matt Harker walked toward Button, not hurrying, his hard sinewy face
blank of expression. He tried to keep his mind that way, too. "Where
is the other one; my friend?"
"In the finish-place." She nodded vaguely toward the cliffs near
where Harker and McLaren had escaped from the caves. Her thought-
image was somewhere between rubbish-heap and cemetery, as
nearly as Harker could translate it. It was also completely casual, a
little annoyed that time should be wasted on such trifles.
"Did you ... is he still alive?"
"It was when we put it there. It will be all right, it will just wait until it
—stops. Like all of them."
"Why was he moved? Why did you...."
"It was ugly." Button shrugged. "It was broken, anyway." She
stretched her arms upward and lifted her head to the wind. A shiver
of delight ran through her. She smiled again at Harker, side-long.
He tried to keep his anger hidden. He started walking again, not as
though he had any purpose in mind, bearing toward the cliffs. His
way lay past a bush with yellow flowers and thorny, pliant branches.
Suddenly it writhed and whipped him across the belly. He stopped
short and doubled over, hearing Button's laughter.
When he straightened up she was in front of him. "It's red," she said,
surprised, and laid little pointed fingers on the scratches left by the
thorns. She seemed thrilled and fascinated by the color and feel of
his blood. Her fingers moved, probing the shape of his muscles, the
texture of his skin and the dark hair on his chest. They drew small
lines of fire along his neck, along the ridge of his jaw, touching his
features one by one, his eyelids, his black brows.
"What are you?" whispered her mind to his.
"This." Harker put his arms around her, slowly. Her flesh slid cool and
strange under his hands, sending an indescribable shudder through
him, partly pleasure, partly revulsion. He bent his head. Her eyes
deepened, lakes of blue fire, and then he found her lips. They were
cool and strange like the rest of her, pliant, scented with spice, the
same perfume that came with sudden overpowering sweetness from
her curling petals.
Harker saw movement in the forest aisles, a clustering of bright
flower-heads. Button drew back. She took his hand and led him
away, off toward the river and the quiet ferny places along its banks.
Glancing up, Harker saw that the two black birds were following
overhead.

"You are really plants, then? Flowers, like those?" He touched the
white blossoms on her head.
"You are really a beast, then? Like the furry, snarling things that climb
up through the pass sometimes?"
They both laughed. The sky above them was the color of clean
fleece. The warm earth and crushed ferns were sweet beneath them.
"What pass?" asked Harker.
"Over there." She pointed off toward the rim of the valley. "It goes
down to the sea, I think. Long ago we used to go down there but
there's no need, and the beasts make it dangerous."
"Do they," said Harker, and kissed her in the hollow below her chin.
"What happens when the beasts come?"
Button laughed. Before he could stir Harker was trapped fast in a
web of creepers and tough fern, and the black birds were screeching
and clashing their sharp beaks in his face.
"That happens," Button said. She stroked the ferns. "Our cousins
understand us, even better than the birds."
Harker lay sweating, even after he was free again. Finally he said,
"Those creatures in the underground lake. Are they your cousins?"
Button's fear-thought thrust against his mind like hands pushing
away. "No, don't.... Long, long ago the legend is that this valley was
a huge lake, and the Swimmers lived in it. They were a different
species from us, entirely. We came from the high gorges, where there
are only barren cliffs now. This was long ago. As the lake receded,
we grew more numerous and began to come down, and finally there
was a battle and we drove the Swimmers over the falls into the black
lake. They have tried and tried to get out, to get back to the light,
but they can't. They send their thoughts through to us sometimes.
They...." She broke off. "I don't want to talk about them any more."
"How would you fight them if they did get out?" asked Harker easily.
"Just with the birds and the growing things?"
Button was slow in answering. Then she said, "I will show you one
way." She laid her hand across his eyes. For a moment there was
only darkness. Then a picture began to form—people, his own
people, seen as reflections in a dim and distorted mirror but
recognizable. They poured into the valley through a notch in the
cliffs, and instantly every bush and tree and blade of grass was bent
against them. They fought, slashing with their knives, making
headway, but slowly. And then, across the plain, came a sort of fog, a
thin drifting curtain of soft white.
It came closer, moving with force of its own, not heeding the wind.
Harker saw that it was thistledown. Seeds, borne on silky wings. It
settled over the people trapped in the brush. It was endless and
unhurrying, covering them all with a fine fleece. They began to
writhe and cry out with pain, with a terrible fear. They struggled, but
they couldn't get away.
The white down dropped away from them. Their bodies were covered
with countless tiny green shoots, sucking the chemicals from the
living flesh and already beginning to grow.
Button's spoken thought cut across the image. "I have seen your
thoughts, some of them, since the moment you came out of the
caves. I can't understand them, but I can see our plains gashed to
the raw earth and our trees cut down and everything made ugly. If
your kind came here, we would have to go. And the valley belongs to
us."
Matt Harker's brain lay still in the darkness of his skull, wary, drawn in
upon itself. "It belonged to the Swimmers first."
"They couldn't hold it. We can."
"Why did you save me, Button? What do you want of me?"
"There was no danger from you. You were strange. I wanted to play
with you."
"Do you love me, Button?" His fingers touched a large smooth stone
among the fern roots.
"Love? What is that?"
"It's tomorrow and yesterday. It's hoping and happiness and pain, the
complete self because it's selfless, the chain that binds you to life and
makes living it worth while. Do you understand?"
"No. I grow, I take from the soil and the light, I play with the others,
with the birds and the wind and the flowers. When the time comes I
am ripe with seed, and after that I go to the finish-place and wait.
That's all I understand. That's all there is."
He looked up into her eyes. A shudder crept over him. "You have no
soul, Button. That's the difference between us. You live, but you have
no soul."
After that it was not so hard to do what he had to do. To do quickly,
very quickly, the thing that was his only faint chance of justifying
Sim's death. The thing that Button may have glimpsed in his mind
but could not guard against, because there was no understanding in
her of the thought of murder.

IV

The black birds darted at Harker, but the compulsion that sent them
flickered out too soon. The ferns and creepers shook, and then were
still, and the birds flew heavily away. Matt Harker stood up.
He thought he might have a little time. The flower-people probably
kept in pretty close touch mentally, but perhaps they wouldn't notice
Button's absence for a while. Perhaps they weren't prying into his
own thoughts, because he was Button's toy. Perhaps....
He began to run, toward the cliffs where the finish-place was. He
kept as much as possible in the open, away from shrubs. He did not
look again, before he left, at what lay by his feet.
He was close to his destination when he knew that he was spotted.
The birds returned, rushing down at him on black whistling wings. He
picked up a dead branch to beat them off and it crumbled in his
hands. Telekinesis, the power of mind over matter. Harker had read
once that if you knew how you could always make your point by
thinking the dice into position. He wished he could think himself up a
blaster. Curved beaks ripped his arms. He covered his face and
grabbed one of the birds by the neck and killed it. The other one
screamed and this time Harker wasn't so lucky. By the time he had
killed the second one he'd felt claws in him and his face was laid
open along the cheekbones. He began to run again.
Bushes swayed toward him as he passed. Thorny branches stretched.
Creepers rose like snakes from the grass, and every green blade was
turned knife-like against his feet. But he had already reached the
cliffs and there were open rocky spaces and the undergrowth was
thin.
He knew he was near the finish-place because he could smell it. The
gentle withered fragrance of flowers past their prime, and under that
a dead, sour decay. He shouted McLaren's name, sick with dread that
there might not be an answer, weak with relief when there was one.
He raced over tumbled rocks toward the sound. A small creeper
tangled his foot and brought him down. He wrenched it by the roots
from its shallow crevice and went on. As he glanced back over his
shoulder he saw a thin white veil, a tiny patch in the distant air,
drifting toward him.
He came to the finish-place.
It was a box canyon, quite deep, with high sheer walls, so that it was
almost like a wide well. In the bottom of it bodies were thrown in a
dry, spongy heap. Colorless flower-bodies, withered and grey, an
incredible compost pile.
Rory McLaren lay on top of it, apparently unhurt. The two packs were
beside him, with the weapons. Strewn over the heap, sitting, lying,
moving feebly about, were the ones who waited, as Button had put
it, to stop. Here were the aged, the faded and worn out, the
imperfect and injured, where their ugliness could not offend. They
seemed already dead mentally. They paid no attention to the men,
nor to each other. Sheer blind vitality kept them going a little longer,
as a geranium will bloom long after its cut stalk is desiccated.
"Matt," McLaren said. "Oh, God, Matt, I'm glad to see you!"
"Are you all right?"
"Sure. My leg even feels pretty good. Can you get me out?"
"Throw those packs up here."
McLaren obeyed. He began to catch Harker's feverish mood, warned
by Harker's bleeding, ugly face that something nasty was afoot.
Harker explained rapidly while he got out one of the ropes and half
hauled McLaren out of the pit. The white veil was close now. Very
close.
"Can you walk?" Harker asked.
McLaren glanced at the fleecy cloud. Harker had told him about it. "I
can walk," he said. "I can run like hell."
Harker handed him the rope. "Get around the other side of the
canyon. Clear across, see?" He helped McLaren on with his pack.
"Stand by with the rope to pull me up. And keep to the bare rocks."
McLaren went off. He limped badly, his face twisted with pain. Harker
swore. The cloud was so close that now he could see the millions of
tiny seeds floating on their silken fibres, thistledown guided by the
minds of the flower-people in the valley. He shrugged into his pack
straps and began winding bandages and tufts of dead grass around
the bone tip of a recovered spear. The edge of the cloud was almost
on him when he got a spark into the improvised torch and sprang
down onto the heap of dead flower-things in the pit.
He sank and floundered on the treacherous surface, struggling across
it while he applied the torch. The dry, withered substance caught. He
raced the flames to the far wall and glanced back. The dying
creatures had not stirred, even when the fire engulfed them.
Overhead, the edges of the seed-cloud flared and crisped. It moved
on blindly over the fire. There was a pale flash of light and the cloud
vanished in a puff of smoke.
"Rory!" Harker yelled. "Rory!"

For a long minute he stood there, coughing, strangling in thick

smoke, feeling the rushing heat crisp his skin. Then, when it was
almost too late, McLaren's sweating face appeared above him and
the rope snaked down. Tongues of flame flicked his backside angrily
as he ran monkey-fashion up the wall.
They got away from there, higher on the rocky ground, slashing
occasionally with their knives at brush and creepers they could not
avoid. McLaren shuddered.
"It's impossible," he said. "How do they do it?"
"They're blood cousins. Or should I say sap. Anyhow, I suppose it's
like radio control—a matter of transmitting the right frequencies.
Here, take it easy a minute."
McLaren sank down gratefully. Blood was seeping through the tight
bandages where Harker had incised his wound. Harker looked back
into the valley.
The flower people were spread out in a long crescent, their bright
multi-colored heads clear against the green plain. Harker guessed
that they would be guarding the pass. He guessed that they had
known what was going on in his mind as well as Button had. New
form of communism, one mind for all and all for one mind. He could
see that even without McLaren's disability they couldn't make it to the
pass. Not a mouse could have made it.
He wondered how soon the next seed-cloud would come.
"What are we going to do, Matt? Is there any way...." McLaren wasn't
thinking about himself. He was looking at the valley like Lucifer
yearning at Paradise, and he was thinking of Viki. Not just Viki alone,
but Viki as a symbol of thirty-eight hundred wanderers on the face of
Venus.
"I don't know," said Harker. "The pass is out, and the caves are out
... hey! Remember when we were fighting off those critters by the
river and you nearly started a cave-in throwing rocks? There was a
fault there, right over the edge of the lake. An earthquake split. If we
could get at it from the top and shake it down...."
It was a minute before McLaren caught on. His eyes widened. "A
slide would dam up the lake...."
"If the level rose enough, the Swimmers could get out." Harker gazed
with sultry eyes at the bobbing flower heads below.
"But if the valley's flooded, Matt, and those critters take over, where
does that leave our people?"
"There wouldn't be too much of a slide, I don't think. The rock's solid
on both sides of the fault. And anyway, the weight of the water
backed up there would push through anything, even a concrete dam,
in a couple of weeks." Harker studied the valley floor intently. "See
the way that slopes there? Even if the slide didn't wash out, a little
digging would drain the flood off down the pass. We'd just be making
a new river."
"Maybe." McLaren nodded. "I guess so. But that still leaves the
Swimmers. I don't think they'd be any nicer than these babies about
giving up their land." His tone said he would rather fight Button's
people any day.
Harker's mouth twisted in a slow grin. "The Swimmers are water
creatures, Rory. Amphibious. Also, they've lived underground, in total
darkness, for God knows how long. You know what happens to
angleworms when you get 'em out in the light. You know what
happens to fungus that grows in the dark." He ran his fingers over his
skin, almost with reverence. "Noticed anything about yourself, Rory?
Or have you been too busy."
McLaren stared. He rubbed his own skin, and winced, and rubbed
again, watching his fingers leave streaks of livid white that faded
instantly. "Sunburn," he said wonderingly. "My God. Sunburn!"
Harker stood up. "Let's go take a look." Down below the flower heads
were agitated "They don't like that thought, Rory. Maybe it can be
done, and they know it."
McLaren rose, leaning on a short spear like a cane. "Matt. They won't
let us get away with it."
Harker frowned. "Button said there were other ways beside the
seed...." He turned away. "No use standing here worrying about it."
They started climbing again, very slowly on account of McLaren.
Harker tried to gauge where they were in relation to the cavern
beneath. The river made a good guide. The rocks were almost barren
of growth here, which was a godsend. He watched, but he couldn't
see anything threatening approaching from the valley. The flower
people were mere dots now, perfectly motionless.
The rock formation changed abruptly. Ancient quakes had left scars in
the shape of twisted strata, great leaning slabs of granite poised like
dancers, and cracks that vanished into darkness.
Harker stopped. "This is it. Listen, Rory. I want you to go off up
there, out of the danger area...."
"Matt, I...."
"Shut up. One of us has got to be alive to take word back to the
ships as soon as he can get through the valley. There's no great rush
and you'll be able to travel in three-four days. You...."
"But why me? You're a better mountain man...."
"You're married," said Harker curtly. "It'll only take one of us to shove
a couple of those big slabs down. They're practically ready to fall of
their own weight. Maybe nothing will happen. Maybe I'll get out all
right. But it's a little silly if both of us take the risk, isn't it?"
"Yeah. But Matt...."
"Listen, kid." Harker's voice was oddly gentle. "I know what I'm
doing. Give my regards to Viki and the...."
He broke off with a sharp cry of pain. Looking down incredulously, he
saw his body covered with little tentative flames, feeble, flickering,
gone, but leaving their red footprints behind them.
McLaren had the same thing.
They stared at each other. A helpless terror took Harker by the
throat. Telekinesis again. The flower people turning his own weapon
against them. They had seen fire, and what it did, and they were
copying the process in their own minds, concentrating, all of them
together, the whole mental force of the colony centered on the two
men. He could even understand why they focused on the skin. They
had taken the sunburn-thought and applied it literally.
Fire. Spontaneous combustion. A simple, easy reaction, if you knew
the trick. There was something about a burning bush....
The attack came again, stronger this time. The flower people were
getting the feel of it now. It hurt. Oh God, it hurt. McLaren screamed.
His loincloth and bandages began to smoulder.
What to do, thought Harker, quick, tell me what to do....
The flower people focus on us through our minds, our conscious
minds. Maybe they can't get the subconscious so easily, because the
thoughts are not directed, they're images, symbols, vague things.
Maybe if Rory couldn't think consciously they couldn't find him....
Another flare of burning, agonizing pain. In a minute they'll have the
feel of it. They can keep it going....
Without warning, Harker slugged McLaren heavily on the jaw and
dragged him away to where the rock was firm. He did it all with
astonishing strength and quickness. There was no need to save
himself. He wasn't going to need himself much longer.
He went away a hundred feet or so, watching McLaren. A third attack
struck him, sickened and dazed him so that he nearly fell. Rory
McLaren was not touched.
Harker smiled. He turned and ran back toward the rotten place in the
cliffs. A part of his conscious thought was so strongly formed that his
body obeyed it automatically, not stopping even when the flames
appeared again and again on his flesh, brightening, growing,
strengthening as the thought-energies of Button's people meshed
together. He flung down one teetering giant of stone, and the shock
jarred another loose. Harker stumbled on to a third, based on a
sliding bed of shale, and thrust with all his strength and beyond it,
and it went too, with crashing thunder.
Harker fell. The universe dissolved into shuddering, roaring chaos
beyond a bright veil of flame and a smell of burning flesh. By that
time there was only one thing clear in Matt Harker's understanding—
the second part of his conscious mind, linked to and even stronger
than the first.
The image he carried with him into death was a tall mountain with
snow on its shoulders, blazing in the sun.

It was night. Rory McLaren lay prone on a jutting shelf above the
valley. Below him the valley was lost in indigo shadows, but there
was a new sound in it—the swirl of water, angry and swift. There was
new life in it, too. It rode the crest of the flood waters, burning gold
in the blue night, shining giants returning in vengeance to their own
place. Great patches of blazing jewel-toned phosphorescence dotted
the water—the flower-hounds, turned loose to hunt. And in between
them, rolling and leaping in deadly play, the young of the Swimmers
went.
McLaren watched them hunt the forest people. He watched all night,
shivering with dread, while the golden titans exacted payment for the
ages they had lived in darkness. By dawn it was all over. And then,
through the day, he watched the Swimmers die.
The river, turned back on itself, barred them from the caves. The
strong bright light beat down. The Swimmers turned at first to greet
it with a pathetic joy. And then they realized....
McLaren turned away. He waited, resting, until, as Harker had
predicted, the block washed away and the backed-up water could
flow normally again. The valley was already draining when he found
the pass. He looked up at the mountains and breathed the sweet
wind, and felt a great shame and humility that he was here to do it.
He looked back toward the caves where Sim had died, and the cliffs
above where he had buried what remained of Matt Harker. It seemed
to him that he should say something, but no words came, only that
his chest was so full he could hardly breathe. He turned mutely down
the rocky pass, toward the Sea of Morning Opals and the thirty-eight
hundred wanderers who had found a home.
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