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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lilith trying to learn in Chapter 4?

2. Where are many of the humans on the Oankali ship?

3. What does Jdahya say about his people helping Earth?

4. What do the men in the forest do to Akin?

5. Why does Lilith only wake women at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about Akin's intelligence and his body from humans?

2. In Chapter 2, Dawn, where does Kahguyaht take Lilith and what does he do with Lilith after that?

3. What does Tate think about Lilith's story, what does Lilith show her and what does Tate say she is instead of a prisoner?

4. About what is Akin warned and why does his family watch him closely?

5. In Chapter 4, where do Lilith and Joseph go and why are the others following them?

6. What do Tate, Gabriel and Joseph decide to do in Chapter Three, The Training Floor and what are the humans saying about their situation?

7. What happens when Lilith is out gathering supplies and why did it happen?

8. What happens when Lilith and Joseph try to hold hands and what do they know about it?

9. What does Lilith do before she wakes any humans and who does she decide to wake first?

10. Who do Lilith and Akin meet in the forest and what is Lilith's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Lilith's Brood is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book. Questions that most likely Butler wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Butler's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Lilith's Brood based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Lilith's Brood is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Lilith's Brood is a trilogy changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

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