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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 can ooloi do that might make them powerful?
(a) Take over control of other people's minds.
(b) Control the wind.
(c) Control genetic material.
(d) They are not particularly powerful.

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

3. How does the thought of bonding with Tiikuchahk feel to Akin?
(a) It excites him.
(b) It confuses him.
(c) It disgusts him.
(d) He is indifferent.

4. With what does Tate promise to help Akin?
(a) Gabriel's anger.
(b) The Oankali.
(c) His mother.
(d) Other humans.

5. About what do the people of Phoenix fight while Akin is there?
(a) The Andromeda colony.
(b) The Saturn colony.
(c) Going to a colony on the Oankali home planet.
(d) The Mars colony.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Tate say she will leave Earth?

3. What sex does Jodahs think it will be after his metamorphosis?

4. Why doesn't Jodahs want to mate with Marina?

5. Why might any construct be frightened of becoming ooloi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Akin told about his plan for the humans?

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 Aaor say about Jodahs after he links with him and what does Nikanj say about Jodahs?

6. What does Akin argue about concerning humans when aboard a ship with Dichaan and what is Dichaan's response?

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

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

9. About what does Akin warn the two girl constructs, how do they respond and what does he ask them to do?

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

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