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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 do the people in Phoenix talk to Akin about when he is changing?
(a) About his mother, Lilith.
(b) About Tate and Gabriel.
(c) About how horrible he looks.
(d) About going to another planet.

2. How long does metamorphosis take?
(a) Months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Two years.

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

4. Why didn't Akin bond with Tiikuchahk?
(a) Tiikuchahk was born on the ship.
(b) They are from two different parent groups.
(c) Tiikuchahk was in the resister camp when Akin was born.
(d) Akin was in the resister camp when Tiikuchahk was born.

5. Why does Dichaan decide to ask the ship for a shuttle?
(a) So Lilith can return for her last pregnancy.
(b) To make Akin go to the ship.
(c) So Dichaan can return to the ship.
(d) So Tino can go to the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jodahs seek when he goes into the forest?

2. What does the note say the men found in the village?

3. What does Akin argue about on the shuttle?

4. What happens to Aaor after Jodahs heals the human?

5. What does one of the woman in Phoenix want to do with the two female constructs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Tino arguing about Akin with the Oankali and what does Dichaan decide to do about it?

3. What does Tiikuchahk say about his choices in metamorphosis and how do the Oankali respond to his indecisiveness?

4. 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?

5. What does Jodahs begin to resemble and why? Who do they find who needs healing, what is Nikanj's response and why is Jodahs wary of healing him?

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

7. What does Gabriel do when Akin is healing Tate and what does Akin realize?

8. Who do Nikanj, Jodahs and the others meet as they leave to hide from the Oankali?

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

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

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