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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Sandra Fuller Bright hold?

2. What does the Motie try to disassemble when it reaches Whitbred's space taxi?

3. What year is it in the Prologue?

4. The Motie that Whitbred brings to the ship is only interested in what?

5. What color is the alien's fur when Whitbred first meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the individuals on board the MacArthur demonstrate a class-system like the Motie Engineer?

2. What does faster than light travel mean for the humans in the story?

3. What emotions does Rod feel when he learns the alien is dead inside the pod?

4. What does the visual record in The Church of Him show the Navy men?

5. How does Sally raise the tension level surrounding what to do with the alien pod?

6. How is the urgency of the local Navy headquarters made clear in Chapter 4?

7. How are the human scientists not being objective observers regarding the Moties?

8. Why are the humans having such a difficult time initiating communication with the Motie Engineer?

9. What, finally, impresses everyone that the escaped Moties on the MacArthur pose a problem?

10. What is the blindness that afflicts the humans when they visit the Motie zoo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the humans eventually put together the truth about the Moties? What leads the humans to believe the Moties are hiding something? What is the truth? What does this explain about the Motie culture? Use examples from the text in support of your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Citing examples from the book, explain in what ways the characterizations of the aliens are more complex than the characterizations of the humans.

Essay Topic 3

What is a literary climax? What is the climax of this story? Explain your answer using specific examples from the book.

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