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

2. 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 planet that hasn't had a war on it.
(c) To get out from under the Oankali.
(d) To have a longer life span.

3. Why does Gabriel hit Akin?
(a) Because he looks Oankali now.
(b) He found him mating with Tate.
(c) He thinks Akin is hurting Tate.
(d) He thought he was someone else.

4. What does the ooloi tell Akin about his bonding with Tiikuchahk?
(a) No ooloi tells him anything.
(b) It was successful.
(c) It went very wrong and Tiikuchahk is dead.
(d) He cannot bond.

5. About what does Akin talk to Tate?
(a) Healing Gabriel.
(b) Mars and options for having children.
(c) Going to the Oankali ship.
(d) How to stay healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Akin hope he will be bought in Phoenix?

2. What does Akin fear about metamorphosis?

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

4. In Chapter 7, how did the woman Nikanj and Jodahs' head get hurt?

5. Who is Akin's same sex Oankali parent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is Akin worried the humans won't trust him and what does he ask of Tate?

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

7. What does Aaor do with Jodahs when he is going to heal the man and what is the result of his behavior?

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

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

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

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