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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the story's protagonist?
(a) Ensel.
(b) Saranna.
(c) Lanik.
(d) Dinte.

2. As the story opens, what condition is the main character facing?
(a) Radical regeneration.
(b) Racial regeneration.
(c) Specific regeneration.
(d) Superficial regeneration.

3. What happens at least twice a day in Nkumai?
(a) It gets foggy.
(b) The people descend to find food.
(c) It rains.
(d) The sun burns the leaves.

4. What does the land of Mueller exchange for iron?
(a) Extra limbs.
(b) Horses.
(c) Lion fur.
(d) Extra livestock.

5. What must Lanik do as a result of receiving his gift from the Earth?
(a) Scale the mountain.
(b) Swim across the lake.
(c) Jump off the cliff.
(d) Drink the water.

6. What does the person helping Lanik give him before he departs?
(a) A dress.
(b) A map.
(c) Advice.
(d) Money.

7. What people are on the ship that picks up Lanik?
(a) Slavers.
(b) Nkumaians.
(c) Rebels.
(d) Traders.

8. What is the name of the old soldier who joins Lanik and his two friends as Lanik prepares to leave Mueller?
(a) Mwabao.
(b) Homarnoch.
(c) Kukueian.
(d) Ensel.

9. What nickname does Lanik use for his mother?
(a) Ma.
(b) Turd.
(c) Pumpkin.
(d) Old Lady.

10. While in the castle in Mueller, whose throat does Lanik slit?
(a) Saranna.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Dinte.

11. What land are the slavers from?
(a) Nkumai.
(b) Ku Kuei.
(c) Allison.
(d) Singer.

12. Why is the person Lanik meets afraid, at first, to help him?
(a) Lanik looks scruffy and dangerous.
(b) The person is under surveillance.
(c) There are penalties for aiding and abetting felons.
(d) There have been robbers in the area.

13. Lanik becomes legendary in the land of Sill. What is Lanik known as?
(a) The Naked Man.
(b) The Running Man.
(c) The Earth Mover.
(d) The Three-Armed Man.

14. What is wrong with the meat served to Lanik by the slavers?
(a) The meat is undercooked.
(b) The meat is overcooked.
(c) The meat is grisly.
(d) The meat is maggoty.

15. Who is the protagonist's brother?
(a) Dinte.
(b) Ensel.
(c) Saranna.
(d) Lanik.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lanik realize as he watches the people who make their home in the desert?

2. After receiving a gift from the Earth, what must one do?

3. Who is the original settler of Nkumai?

4. What is the name of the land in which the inhabitants live high in the trees?

5. What does transsexual growth indicate?

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