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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. Who is plotting to have Ghanima and Leto killed?
(a) Lady Jessica.
(b) Muad'Dib.
(c) Princess Wensicia.
(d) Gurney Halleck.

2. Who are the main characters?
(a) Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica.
(b) Irulan and Princess Wensicia.
(c) Alia and Gurney Halleck.
(d) Ghanima and Leto.

3. Who does Alia ask to abduct Lady Jessica?
(a) Irulan.
(b) Duncan Idaho.
(c) The Preacher.
(d) Ghanima.

4. The interpretation of dreams is central to what faith?
(a) Osiromancy.
(b) The Golden Path.
(c) Oneiromancy.
(d) Golden Light.

5. Whose plan is it to separate Ghanima and Leto?
(a) Lady Jessica.
(b) Gurney Halleck.
(c) Princess Wensicia.
(d) Alia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Bene Gesserit?

2. 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.

3. Alia sees Jessica as a greater threat than who?

4. What cycle would have to be duplicated in order to produce spice on another planet?

5. Why do people use spice?

Short Essay Questions

1. There is growing tension between the old Fremen way of life and the new progressive Fremen way of life. What are the differences between the two? How has Arakis, and thus the Fremen society changed? What brought about these changes?

2. Is the future as a setting an important part of science fiction as a genre? Could this science fiction novel take place in the past? What aspects of the story would have to be the same in order for it to remain a science fiction novel?

3. Lady Jessica and her sister Irulan are a part of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. Who are the Bene Gesserits? What is their goal, and what role do Lady Jessica and Irulan play in that goal?

4. Why does Leto talk Ghanima into inviting their parents persona-memories in despite the danger? What does Leto discover?

5. 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?

6. It is decided in this section that Alia is indeed Abomination. Why is that decision made? What did Alia do that sealed her fate as Abomination?

7. What four things does Alia feel are the traditional reaction to unrest? In which way is she going to react to the mass unrest threatening her Regency?

8. 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?

9. What is the CHOAM?

10. Why does Alia feel alone? What makes her believe that she has no where to turn but inward? Why does she turn inward?

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