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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 new Idaho?

2. At the beginning of the story, how many people are fleeing through the Forbidden Forest?

3. According to Leto during his discussion with the new Idaho, what is Leto's ultimate fate?

4. As Leto and Moneo's procession nears the Idaho River, who is stationed along the river's banks to raise any necessary warnings?

5. What are two signs of the Worm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leto learn about Siona during his meeting with Nayla?

2. Why does Leto hold his first interview with the new Idaho in the darkened crypt?

3. After being informed by Idaho that there have been attacks on the guards and spotty violence in the City and in the Forbidden Forest, Leto orders human wolves introduced into the forest. Why?

4. According to the first conversation to take place between Leto and Nayla, what does Leto demand of Nayla?

5. In her letter writing directly to Leto, what does Nayla beg from Leto?

6. At the beginning of the story, three intruders steal the two cryptic volumes from the fortress. What do they hope the volumes reveal?

7. Why is Noree dissatisfied with the formal analysis of Leto's motives for accepting his transformation in exchange for longevity?

8. After her meeting with Kobat, how does Siona summarize what she learned in the meeting

9. What does the Fish Speakers' chant of "Siaynoq" signify?

10. What does the investigators' report indicate about the Museum Fremen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moneo often watches Leto for signs that signal the "approach of the Worm."

a. What signs is Moneo watching for?

b. What actions or theories does Leto hold that particularly worry Moneo because they signal the Worm is near?

c. Why is Moneo afraid the Worm and its emergence?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Idaho's personality, beliefs, and loyalties at the following points in the story.

a. When the new Idaho is first introduced to Leto.

b. When Idaho learns of Leto's impending marriage to Noree.

c. When Siona shares the cryptic volumes with Idaho in the Tuono Village.

d. After Leto has been killed.

Essay Topic 3

Based on the writings early in the story and the author's historical references throughout the novel, compare and contrast the world in which the story takes place with the world as it was in the Dune days before Leto's metamorphosis.

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