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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 is the meaning of the word "trade" which Jdahya using?
(a) Buying and selling food.
(b) Buying and selling metals.
(c) Interbreeding with humans.
(d) Buying and selling technology.

2. What does Joseph think the humans should do?
(a) Refuse the trade.
(b) Take over the space ship.
(c) Escape once on earth.
(d) Kill all the Oankali.

3. What is odd about the place where Lilith awakens?
(a) It is round.
(b) It is all glass.
(c) It has no obvious means of egress.
(d) It is octagonal.

4. How many different sexes of Jdahya's species are there?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. Why does Joseph come to Lilith's room?
(a) He wants to help lead the group.
(b) He has become her lover.
(c) He wants to marry a human woman.
(d) He has questions about the earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Lilith and Joseph find when they arrive at the meeting place?

3. What are the humans speaking out about in Chapter 1?

4. Why do Lilith and Akin go into the forest in Chapter 4?

5. Why does one of the women attack Lilith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lilith is out gathering supplies and why did it happen?

2. Why does Nikanj take Lilith back home in Chapter 3 and what does Nikanj refuse to do when it takes her back?

3. What does Jdahya tell Lilith about the sexes of the Oankali?

4. What do Tate, Gabriel and Joseph decide to do in Chapter Three, The Training Floor and what are the humans saying about their situation?

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

6. Why does Lilith have to stay with an ooloi and what does Nikanj ask Lilith to let it do?

7. Who do Lilith and Akin meet in the forest and what is Lilith's reaction?

8. Who does Lilith meet in Chapter One of Dawn and how does she feel about Jdahya?

9. What does Lilith find out about her memory when she allows Nikanj to work on her?

10. What does Nikanj say about Lilith's worries?

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