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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 does Jodahs' family decide to do about him?
(a) Go into exile.
(b) Mate him with Dichaan.
(c) Kill him before he is found out.
(d) There is no family decision.

2. What form of body does Akin prefer?
(a) A mixture of human and Oankali.
(b) He has no preference.
(c) Oankali.
(d) Human.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Tino arguing with the Oankali in Chapter 1?

2. How long does metamorphosis take?

3. About what do the people of Phoenix fight while Akin is there?

4. What does Akin fear about metamorphosis?

5. How do Akin's captors find a note left at the first village?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Tino found and what do the Oankali wonder about concerning Akin?

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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