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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do other Oankali tell Lilith is her role for the humans going to earth?
(a) She is to be the priestess.
(b) She is to be the parent.
(c) She is to be the Oankali teacher.
(d) She is to be the mate.

2. How does Peter die?
(a) He is hit by a Oankali stinger.
(b) He fell from one deck of the ship to the one below it.
(c) He is killed by Joseph.
(d) He has taken ill.

3. Why is Lilith looking at the information about the humans on the Oankali ship?
(a) To choose which ones to kill.
(b) To decide with whom she will mate.
(c) To see if any of her family survived.
(d) To choose ones to wake up.

4. Where is Lilith?
(a) In a hospital.
(b) Alone in a room.
(c) In her mother's attic.
(d) In a morgue.

5. What does Lilith believe the other humans will do when she awakens them?
(a) Distrust her.
(b) Complain to her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Follow her leadership.

6. What does Lilith asks Nikanj to do to her in Chapter 9?
(a) Put her back to sleep.
(b) Take her to the other humans on the ship.
(c) Change her body so she can heal instantly.
(d) Take her to earth immediately.

7. Why do Lilith and Akin go into the forest in Chapter 4?
(a) To tend a garden.
(b) To check their snares.
(c) To hunt for mushrooms.
(d) To collect pretty leaves.

8. What will make Akin look less human?
(a) When he becomes a female.
(b) His metamorphosis.
(c) He will always look human.
(d) Too much time in the sun.

9. What happens among the humans as Lilith has more of them awake?
(a) They are forming groups for survival.
(b) They are demanding better food.
(c) They are pairing off into couples.
(d) They begin to fight among themselves.

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

11. How old is Akin when he begins talking in complete sentences?
(a) A year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Fourteen days.

12. Where does Nikanj have to go in Chapter 11?
(a) To live with its Oankali mates.
(b) To Lilith's quarters.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To earth.

13. Who is Lilith Iyapo?
(a) The character who is just awakening.
(b) An anthropologist.
(c) The seer.
(d) The doctor.

14. How are the humans unwilling to lay down their weapons subdued by the Oankali?
(a) They are drugged.
(b) The ground grips them so they can't move.
(c) They are shot with trank guns.
(d) They are hit with an electrical current.

15. What does Tino remember from the ship when he was younger?
(a) The same feeling he has now with Lilith and Nikanj.
(b) That the Oankali kept him locked up.
(c) That only humans slept together.
(d) That the humans on the ship were violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different sexes of Jdahya's species are there?

2. What does Lilith find when she returns from gathering supplies in Chapter 8?

3. What does Curt do to Nikanj?

4. Why does Lilith tell Nikanj to go sit in a corner in Chapter 6?

5. Who is Nikanj?

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