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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. Who is Norma Cenva?

2. According to what Leto shares with Noree, how many deaths will Leto die?

3. When Noree begins to cry after being reunited with Leto after the explosions, why does Leto not wipe away her tears?

4. How does Leto travel to his first meeting with Siona since her banishment?

5. What happens in the desert after Siona tastes the spice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the area surrounding Leto's sunken pit strewn with cushions?

2. As Siona is recovering from the spice in the desert, Leto probes the future. What does Leto learn?

3. What is it about Noree that frightens Leto?

4. Why does Leto love dumping his body onto the sand?

5. After consuming some of the spice, how does Siona react? How is her reaction different from the reaction of earlier Atreides?

6. Why does Leto neglect to mention to Noree that he is ordering a replacement Idaho?

7. As Leto tests Siona, what does he realize about Siona?

8. When Noree is reunited with Leto after the attack on the Ixian Embassy, what is Leto thankful for--besides Noree's safety?

9. What does Ampre, the Ixian Director of Outfederation Affairs, believe about Leto?

10. While together in Leto's small audience room, Leto tells Noree about how the Ixians once considered making a hunter-seeker type of weapon with a self-improving machine mind. According to Leto, what is the danger inherent with that idea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Great Convention bans the use of atomic weapons against human targets and bans "thinking machines." Leto, however, turns a blind eye to the technologies Ixians invent.

a. Explain why Leto's allows the Ixians to continue outlawed practices.

b. How do the Ixian inventions benefit Leto?

c. How do the Ixian inventions threaten Leto?

Essay Topic 2

Early in the story, Leto's primary vulnerability is revealed. Explain what Leto's primary vulnerability is and how that vulnerability is ultimately his undoing and leads to Leto's death.

Essay Topic 3

Noree is introduced in the story as the new Ixian Ambassador.

a. Describe Noree in terms of her upbringing, her training, and her mission.

b. Compare and contrast Noree's mission from the Ixian point of view with her actual mission in Leto's court.

c. How does the evolving relationship between Leto and Noree affect Leto's relationship both positively and negatively with Ix?

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