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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 awaits Leto and Ghanima as they begin their journey toward the Golden Path?
(a) The risk of being hunted and caught by non-believers.
(b) The Trial of Possession.
(c) The dangers of spice trances.
(d) The Trial of Lives Past.

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.
(a) Lady Jessica.
(b) Stilgar.
(c) Irulan.
(d) Alia.

3. Who are the Bene Gesserit?
(a) A group of students.
(b) A religious sisterhood.
(c) A group of rebels.
(d) A collection of priests.

4. Where do the Fedaykin take Lady Jessica after they flee Alia's Temple?
(a) The Attendant.
(b) Tabr Sietch.
(c) Blue Chasm Sietch.
(d) Red Chasm Sietch.

5. Who is Alia's maternal grandfather?
(a) Gurney Halleck.
(b) Baron Vladimir Harkonin.
(c) Leto Atreides.
(d) Paul Atreides.

Short Answer Questions

1. The substance "spice" is also known as:

2. What genre is "Children of Dune"?

3. Where do Leto and Stilgar meet to discuss future plans?

4. What is the plot to kill Ghanima and Leto?

5. Who caused the desert to bloom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the plot to assassinate the twins Ghanima and Leto? How is the plan supposed to work? What is the reason behind the plot?

2. Why does Alia have to strengthen herself against "others"? What does she do in order to do that? Who are the "others"?

3. 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?

4. What does Jessica see in Alia that makes her realize, without doubt, that she is Abomination? What does she need to do as a result of seeing this in Alia?

5. 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?

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

7. What does Idaho deduce about the assassination plot Alia is so concerned about? Who is it really against? How does Idaho believe the attack will happen? What precautions does he suggest? Does Alia listen to him?

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. Leto experiences visions and knows things about the past that he could not know. Why does he have these visions? Where or who do the visions come from?

10. 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?

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