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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stoned.
(b) Lanik is imprisoned.
(c) Lanik is chastised.
(d) Lanik is beaten.

2. How do regenerative powers increase in the Family?
(a) Through potions.
(b) Through inbreeding.
(c) Through dietary restrictions.
(d) Through sorcery.

3. What is the only way to kill a regenerative?
(a) Stab through the regenerative's heart.
(b) Cut out the regenerative's heart.
(c) Cut off the regenerative's head.
(d) Set the regenerative on fire.

4. Why does Lanik demand to be taken above-board on the slave ship?
(a) Because the other prisoners get to go above-board.
(b) Because Lanik wants to offer the captain a bribe.
(c) Because Lanik needs to see the sun.
(d) Because Lanik wants to face his captors.

5. What does Lanik realize as he watches the people who make their home in the desert?
(a) They convert the desert sand into food.
(b) They have secret stores of water.
(c) They hide in their homes from the sun.
(d) They never need to eat or drink.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who visits Lanik just before he escapes?
(a) Ensel.
(b) Allison.
(c) Saranna.
(d) Mwabao.

13. After receiving a gift from the Earth, what must one do?
(a) Honor the gift.
(b) Thank the Earth.
(c) Worship the Earth.
(d) Test the gift.

14. After telling Lanik the source of their iron sales, what does the highest official in the land demand from Lanik?
(a) Monetary compensation.
(b) Sexual favors.
(c) A percentage of Lanik's food stores.
(d) An information exchange.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While Lanik sleeps in this person's house, who comes looking for Lanik?

2. How do the slavers describe Lanik's appearance after Lanik has been aboard the slave ship for a little while?

3. What do the people of Nkumai do first thing every morning?

4. What secret does Lanik hold that enables him to make his escape?

5. In Mueller, Lanik's prison cell visitor takes him to see which person?

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