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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the main character prepares to leave his homeland, what does he notice being kept in pens?
(a) Convicted felons.
(b) Untamed lions.
(c) Radical regeneratives.
(d) Livestock.

2. When Lanik flings himself into the ocean, what does he hope for?
(a) To land safely on another shore.
(b) To drown.
(c) To be rescued by a nearby boat.
(d) To float away to safety.

3. While Lanik sleeps in this person's house, who comes looking for Lanik?
(a) The assassin.
(b) Dinte.
(c) Saranna.
(d) Soldiers.

4. What happens to the person helping Lanik just as Lanik is preparing to leave?
(a) The person is shot with a bullet.
(b) The person is shot with an arrow.
(c) The person is set on fire.
(d) The person is captured.

5. Which wife of Mueller is Lanik's mother?
(a) The fourth.
(b) The second.
(c) The first.
(d) The seventh.

6. What is the name of the people who live in the desert?
(a) The Schwartzes.
(b) The Nkumaians.
(c) The Allisons.
(d) The Ku Kueians.

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

8. Who is the highest official in Nkumai?
(a) Saranna.
(b) Ensel.
(c) President.
(d) Mwabao.

9. Who is the original settler of Nkumai?
(a) A rebel spy.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A physicist.
(d) An urban planner.

10. According to what Lanik learns from his visitor, who rules Mueller?
(a) Ensel.
(b) Mwabao.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

11. What two words describe the people aboard the slave ship?
(a) Sentimental and kind.
(b) Cruel and sentimental.
(c) Cruel and loving.
(d) Loving and kind.

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

13. As Lanik travels away from the desert people, he requests clothes and is asked his name. What happens when Lanik tells people who he is?
(a) Lanik is beaten.
(b) Lanik is stoned.
(c) Lanik is chastised.
(d) Lanik is imprisoned.

14. What best describes the 'Lanik and Lanik" chapter?
(a) An extended political rant.
(b) An extended chase scene.
(c) An abbreviated history of the planet.
(d) A foreshadowing extravaganza.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the story's protagonist?

2. What do the people in Nkumai eat?

3. When Lanik is returned to his homeland and charged with a number of crimes, what is Lanik's sentence for committing these crimes?

4. What is wrong with the meat served to Lanik by the slavers?

5. What is unique about the captain of the slave ship?

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