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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What satisfies Isaac's need for order?
(a) The arrangement of the villages' living spacdes.
(b) The exactitude in which Sofia maintains her research material.
(c) The neat rows of crops.
(d) The concept of DNA.

2. What is the evening prayer chant which Isaac says every night?
(a) Nothing; he refuses to pray.
(b) Canticle.
(c) Creed of Life.
(d) Sh'ma.

3. What happens that causes Emilio to weep, laugh and joke?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His moment of realization.
(c) Knowing Gina has given him a daughter.
(d) His conversation with Sofia.

4. What does Ha'anala want to do?
(a) See Sofia before Sofia dies or leaves Rakhat.
(b) Marry Rukuei.
(c) Learn how to write music.
(d) Return to her native home.

5. What does Supaari vow to never do again?
(a) Fight fate.
(b) Let his children be taken from him.
(c) Eat Runa.
(d) Kill.

6. What kind of human does Isaac want them to bring back?
(a) A female his age.
(b) Someone who sings.
(c) A computer specilist.
(d) Someone who can make musical instruments.

7. What happens when Ha'anala begins labor?
(a) An army appears.
(b) A festive crowd gathers.
(c) She passes out.
(d) She is taken into the temple.

8. What does Supaari observe which motivates him on a new mission?
(a) Some ant like creatures.
(b) The courtship of two elader.
(c) Parasites.
(d) Birds.

9. What does Sofia tell Emilio about the Jana'ata?
(a) They are not capable of change.
(b) They deserve extinction.
(c) She cannot tolerate their presence.
(d) She does not understand them.

10. Where does Sofia think Isaac would do well?
(a) In the mountains where it is quiet.
(b) In a small village of Runa.
(c) In the Jana'ata colony.
(d) On the ship.

11. What does Emilio say about the first mission to Rakhat?
(a) They were squashed of any hope very quickly.
(b) That the first mission misunderstood almost everything about the two cultures.
(c) They did not train enough before arriving at Rakhat.
(d) They did not intend for another group to come back.

12. What earth people does Sean see an analogy to with the Runa and the Jana'ata?
(a) The Blacks and Whites in America.
(b) The Jewish and the Irish.
(c) The Cambodians and the Vietnamese.
(d) The Russians and the Chinese.

13. What selections does Isaac play?
(a) Hlavin's poesy to the creator.
(b) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
(c) Vivaldi.
(d) The Magellan's varied collection.

14. What is driving Isaac crazy on Rakhat in 2061?
(a) The sound of the Runa learning to fight with swords.
(b) The sound of the drums bringing news.
(c) The camp noises.
(d) The sound of warfare.

15. What must Emilio show God?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Understanding.
(c) The stuff of which Emilio is made of.
(d) Submission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Danny accept?

2. How did the former views on legacy affect Jana'ata society?

3. Who does Sofia wish would return to her camp?

4. What do Sofia's guides find when they arrive at the landing site?

5. Who does Emilio blame for his misfortunes?

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