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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. Why do the humans who don't want to leave Earth still decide to do it?
(a) To be healed of deformities.
(b) To have a longer life span.
(c) To get out from under the Oankali.
(d) To have a planet that hasn't had a war on it.

2. Why does Jodahs look as he does?
(a) There are no humans around to please.
(b) He is trying to fly.
(c) He doesn't know why he looks that way.
(d) There are no Oankali around to please.

3. What does Akin think about humans and Earth?
(a) The Oankali should never have come to earth.
(b) Akin can make a place for humans on earth.
(c) The humans should share earth with the Oankali.
(d) Humans don't deserve such a nice planet.

4. What does Akin fear about metamorphosis?
(a) He will no longer look human.
(b) He will no longer look Oankali.
(c) He will no longer be a male.
(d) He will no longer be an ooloi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dichaan decide to ask the ship for a shuttle?

2. How long does metamorphosis take?

3. Why didn't Akin bond with Tiikuchahk?

4. What worries Akin about his appearance?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Akin realizes he needs to learn more and that he is Oankali enough to be heard when he explains about the resisters being mistreated.

2. Who comes to fight with Akin's captors and what happens to them?

3. Where does Akin go and what does he find when he returns to earth? What does he tell his friends there?

4. Why is Jodahs frightened about Nikanj's information and what does Nikanj say to him?

5. What does Jodahs say about his metamorphosis, how old is he and what does he believe he will be following his metamorphosis?

6. Why does Nikanj say Jodahs and Aaor have to return to the ship and how does Jodahs respond to that assertion by Nikanj?

7. What does Akin think about Dehkiaht being with him?

8. What are Akins hopes when they reach Phoenix, with whom do he and his captors stay? What does the kind man tell Akin to do in Phoenix?

9. What do the people who come to talk with Akin want to know? What do they have to say about his news?

10. What do Tomas and Jesusa do when Jodahs begins his second metamorphosis and what do they not know about it?

(see the answer keys)

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