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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What planet are the twins Ghanima and Leto on in the beginning of the book?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Chani.
(c) Arakis.
(d) Earth.

2. What was Paul tested with as a boy?
(a) Psychic ability tests.
(b) The Cast Out.
(c) The gom jabber.
(d) The knife challenge.

3. Why are Leto and Ghanima in danger from the Bene Gesserit?
(a) They are pre-borns.
(b) They carry the blood of Kwisatz Haderach.
(c) They are able to make contact with their inner-lives.
(d) The Bene Gesserit wants them killed.

4. Who demands the answer to these three questions in relation to the assassination plot: When? Using what weapons? Where? The question of Who is unimportant to this character.
(a) Lady Jessica.
(b) Stilgar.
(c) Alia.
(d) Irulan.

5. Who is presenting his case when an attempt is made on Lady Jessica's life?
(a) Irulan.
(b) Gurney Halleck.
(c) Ghadheal al-Fali.
(d) Stilgar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says: "Power attracts the psychotics. Always. That's what we have to avoid within ourselves." ?

2. Who refuses to look into the future, realizing the "trap of prescience"?

3. What does Jessica see in Alia that confirms she is Abomination?

4. Who encourages Alia by reassuring her of her plan to have Lady Jessica abducted?

5. Who caused the desert to bloom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does The Preacher do to anger Farad'n when Farad'n invites The Preacher to his palace? What reasons does he give for not complying with Farad'n's requests? What does he offer as an alternative?

2. At the beginning of the story, it is believed that The Preacher could be posing as someone else. Who do the people believe The Preacher may be? Why do people believe he is someone else?

3. Spice is an important theme through out the book. What is spice? How is it produced? What is it used for?

4. How does Leto tell Lady Jessica the Atreides' House will be undone? What factors play into their demise?

5. Alia outlines the three reasons the Bene Gesserit give for large populations turning on their oppressors. What are they? Are these things occurring?

6. What three paths has Leto seen for himself that he explains to Stilgar? What are the implications of these paths? Where does Leto believe he will die?

7. Alia finds it difficult, but she still asks her husband, Duncan Idaho, to abduct Jessica. How does he react? What does he say he will do?

8. Who is Muad'Dib? What is his importance in the beginning of the story?

9. What is the agreement that Alia has with her uncle Baron Harkonnen? Why does she believe she needs his help? Does the Baron have ulterior motives?

10. Lady Jessica suspects Leto is Abonimation, and demands and explanation from him when he begins discussing the concept of time and the choice he has to make to live and die for his subjects or live for thousands of years. What is Leto's response to Jessica's demand for an explanation?

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