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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nikanj take Lilith after they meet?
(a) To his quarters.
(b) To the dining facility.
(c) To see its friends.
(d) To see the ship's bridge.

2. About what is Akin warned by members of his family?
(a) About talking too much.
(b) About humans.
(c) About having a human mother.
(d) About playing in the sun.

3. Why does one of the women attack Lilith?
(a) She thinks Lilith is lying about the Oankali.
(b) She wants Lilith's boyfriend.
(c) She is from a country that was fighting Lilith's country.
(d) She is angry about the lack of meat in their diet.

4. Who is trying to help humans after the war?
(a) Humans from places where the war did not hit.
(b) No one.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Some sentient native animals.

5. Why can't Lilith leave the house where she is with Nikanj?
(a) Nikanj needs her to cook the food.
(b) She is being mated to Nikanj.
(c) There is no where for her to go.
(d) He has started his metamorphosis.

6. What do the men in the forest do to Akin?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Break his arm.
(c) Kidnap him.
(d) Kill him.

7. What does Lilith tell the resister, Tino, about Akin?
(a) That he will become female at some point.
(b) That he will turn into an Oankali some day.
(c) That the Oankali made her pregnant because she wanted it.
(d) That he is all human.

8. What does Nikanj tell Lilith about the humans on Earth?
(a) The women are all pregnant.
(b) They are all infertile.
(c) They will be left.
(d) They will die when the winter comes.

9. Who are the ooloi?
(a) Jdahya does not tell Lilith.
(b) Another species helping Jdahya's people.
(c) A special type of animal that eats radioactive wastes.
(d) An unsexed member of Jdahya's species.

10. How does the person from question #38 think about what Lilith tells her?
(a) Thinks it is wonderful.
(b) She believes Lilith and wants to learn more.
(c) Does not fully believe it.
(d) Is angry about it.

11. Who is the first human Lilith meets on the Oankali ship?
(a) Curtis Rand.
(b) Randy Kotig.
(c) Charles Smithfield.
(d) Paul Titus.

12. Why is Lilith given to Kahguyaht?
(a) To learn more.
(b) Because Jdahya is leaving the ship.
(c) To be initiated into the family.
(d) Kahguyht is the only Oankali who understands English.

13. How does Akin's body develop?
(a) Faster than humans.
(b) Slower than Oankali.
(c) Slower than humans.
(d) Just as any child.

14. What is Lilith trying to learn in Chapter 4?
(a) How to live on the earth as it is now.
(b) How to navigate by the stars.
(c) The Oankali language.
(d) How to open doors on the Oankali ship.

15. What does a man call Tino when some resisters find him and Akin in the forest?
(a) An alien.
(b) A traitor.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A dupe for Lilith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jdahya's species?

2. With whom is Lilith told she must stay for a while to prepare for her future life?

3. What does Jdahya say about his people helping Earth?

4. What does Nikanj say Joseph has learned to endure?

5. What happens when Lilith tries to hold Joseph's hand in Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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