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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. About what is Tino arguing with the Oankali in Chapter 1?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Akin.
(c) Spending time on the space ship.
(d) Nikanj.

2. What does Akin think he should do for the humans?
(a) Help them over throw the Oankali.
(b) Find another world for them without the Oankali.
(c) Heal their infertility.
(d) Live with them and teach them technology.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men who have Akin discuss when they stop for a rest?

2. What does Akin realize after he wakes up from Gabriel hitting him?

3. What form of body does Akin prefer?

4. In Chapter 4, what is wrong with one of Akin's captors?

5. Why does Tate say she will leave Earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What happens to Akin as he is going through change, how long will it take and what is happening in the village?

9. What does Jodahs say about his metamorphosis, how old is he and what does he believe he will be following his metamorphosis?

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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