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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lilith do with people after she awakens them?
(a) Sets them up in an earth-like environment immediately.
(b) Sends them to the Oankali.
(c) Explains what is happening.
(d) Has them take basic personality tests.

3. Why does Lilith only wake women at first?
(a) She wants to get the women into age groups first.
(b) Because she doesn't like men.
(c) That is what the Oankali told her to do.
(d) Because she is strong enough to control them.

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

5. What does Nikanj tell Lilith the humans planned to do with her on Earth?
(a) Make her negotiate with the Oankali.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Keep her captive.
(d) Take her baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jdahya explain about the space ship?

2. What does Nikanj tell Lilith Kahguyaht wants to do to her?

3. What kind of trade are the Oankali offering the humans?

4. What does Tino remember from the ship when he was younger?

5. Why does Lilith like Jdahya?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in the room when Lilith wakes in Chapter 2 and what does she learn?

2. What happens to Tino and Akin when they are out alone?

3. What happens when Lilith and Joseph try to hold hands and what do they know about it?

4. How are the humans reacting when many of them have been woken and what does Lilith do when attacked and what does she realize?

5. Where is Lilith Iyapo when she wakes up in Chapter 1 and what is different this time then other times she's awakened? What does Lilith know about her situation?

6. About what is Akin warned and why does his family watch him closely?

7. What does Jdahya tell Lilith the Oankali have discovered about the human species?

8. Who is Akin and what does he look like? Who is is father and why does Lilith worry?

9. What does Lilith do before she wakes any humans and who does she decide to wake first?

10. What does Tate think about Lilith's story, what does Lilith show her and what does Tate say she is instead of a prisoner?

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