Xenocide | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

A Parting

1. What is the upper, or ruling, caste on Path called?

"The Godspoken"

2. What are two problems the human colonists on Lusitania are facing?

Planet destruction and viral infection

3. What are the Upper Caste expected to do?

Embrace the Path entirely and unreservedly

4. If the Upper Caste don't live up to expectations, what happens to them?

They are punished with penances

5. What is the name of the virus that threatens the colonists of Lusitania?

The virulent descolada virus

6. The first chapter is marred with a death. Who dies?

Han Fei-tsu's wife, Jiang-Qing

7. What is the person ailing from?

A disease that eats at the bones

8. What do the two people left in her family do when she dies?

They make paper offerings to her

9. What does her husband fear most since she has died?

That he cannot...
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