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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 doesn't Jodahs want to mate with Marina?
(a) She has the wrong DNA sequence.
(b) She is too old.
(c) She is too human.
(d) She is too young.

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

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

4. Why does the group from Phoenix go to Akin's town?
(a) Akin needs to see his mother.
(b) They want to go to Mars.
(c) Phoenix burns down.
(d) They want to go to Saturn.

5. What does Akin argue about on the shuttle?
(a) The Oankali's responsibility towards the humans.
(b) Not having to go through metamorphosis.
(c) That humans should be forced to bond with the ooloi.
(d) Humanity to not be forced into relationship with the Oankali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Akin about his appearance?

2. Why does Akin want to go to the ship?

3. What does Aaor tell Jodahs after he links with him?

4. What does Dichaan believe about humanity?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

6. How does Akin feel about Dichaan's plan for him?

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

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

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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