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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what is wrong with one of Akin's captors?
(a) He breaks his arm.
(b) He is sick and vomiting blood.
(c) He is horribly deformed.
(d) His hand and leg are burned.

2. What will happen to Earth when the Oankali ship leaves it?
(a) It will be pollutedby the ship's fuel.
(b) It will be seeded to regrow.
(c) It will be destroyed.
(d) Nothing.

3. About what is Tino arguing with the Oankali in Chapter 1?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Akin.
(c) Spending time on the space ship.
(d) Nikanj.

4. Where does Akin go first when he returns to earth?
(a) Reast.
(b) Lo.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Tal.

5. Who rescues Akin when the house is on fire?
(a) Tate.
(b) Tino.
(c) Sarat.
(d) Gabriel.

6. Why does Akin remain quiet as they leave the second village in the middle of the night?
(a) He does not want anyone killed.
(b) He wants to protect Galt.
(c) He does not want to get sick like the villagers.
(d) He does not want to be left there.

7. Why is Tiikuchahk going to stay around Akin?
(a) He is his closest age sibling.
(b) He is infatuated with Akin.
(c) He has to teach Akin how to heal people.
(d) He is his body guard.

8. Why does Akin spend a lot of time with Tate when he first arrives in Phoenix?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is dying.
(c) She is sick.
(d) He wants her to have his child.

9. How do Akin's captors find a note left at the first village?
(a) The men ransacked the village.
(b) Galt knows where it is, it is his village.
(c) Akin smells the ink.
(d) It is posted in the middle of the village.

10. What will Akin do after he bonds with Tiikuchahk?
(a) Find people who know how to terraform a planet.
(b) Stay on the ship.
(c) Mate with a human.
(d) Live with his mother.

11. What does Akin argue about on the shuttle?
(a) That humans should be forced to bond with the ooloi.
(b) Not having to go through metamorphosis.
(c) Humanity to not be forced into relationship with the Oankali.
(d) The Oankali's responsibility towards the humans.

12. Why is Nikanj disappointed about Aaor's metamorphosis?
(a) Aaor is not going to complete metamorphosis.
(b) Aaor is going to be an ooloi.
(c) Aaor is going to be a male.
(d) Aaor is going to be a female.

13. What will happen to the humans who might want to live on a new planet?
(a) They will never be able to have children.
(b) They will live to be hundreds of years old.
(c) Their fertility will be restored.
(d) They will have to give up their Oankali mates.

14. Who comes to the house where Akin is and begins to fight with the men who brought Akin to Phoenix?
(a) Nikanj.
(b) Lilith.
(c) Tino's brother.
(d) Tino's father.

15. What is the name of the human who Jodahs healed?
(a) Steven.
(b) Joa.
(c) Paul.
(d) Bert.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does metamorphosis take?

2. Why does the man in question #161 become angry with Jodahs?

3. With whom is Akin spending a lot of his time?

4. Why do Akin and his captors leave the second village in the middle of the night?

5. Why do the humans who don't want to leave Earth still decide to do it?

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