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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 is the name of the baby mentioned on page 3?

2. Who grew Duncan Idaho?

3. What is the name of the acolyte with whom Odrade is speaking on page 123?

4. Who built Duncan Idaho's no-ship?

5. What is Odrade's "special dish"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Great Honored Matre's pet.

2. Explain the meaning of Scytale's belief that "Tleilaxu sperm does not talk."

3. Explain Truthsense as Shoel described it.

4. Summarize Odrade's memory of Linchine.

5. Explain the meaning of Odrade's saying, "Real boats rock."

6. Why does Odrade eat with the acolytes?

7. What effect does melange have on Odrade?

8. What is Lucilla's relationship to the "Lampadas horde," and how did it come about?

9. What role do the Proctors have with regard to Odrade's position in the Bene Gesserit?

10. Why does Odrade choose Duncan Idaho to train Teg?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Other Memory with the extended memory of a ghola.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the character of Scytale and how his values and motivations compare and contrast with those of the Bene Gesserit.

Essay Topic 3

Explore the assumption of power in the Honored Matre society, and compare and contrast it with that of the Bene Gesserit society.

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