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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. Who takes the men into their home?

2. What does the ooloi tell Akin about his bonding with Tiikuchahk?

3. Why do Akin and his captors leave the second village in the middle of the night?

4. What does Akin think he should do for the humans?

5. How does the thought of bonding with Tiikuchahk feel to Akin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Akin realizes he needs to learn more and that he is Oankali enough to be heard when he explains about the resisters being mistreated.

2. Who comes to fight with Akin's captors and what happens to them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Lilith's Brood.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Lilith's Brood. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Lilith's Brood. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Lilith's Brood is written in the genre of science fiction. Discuss the following:

1. What sets science fiction apart from other genres? Discuss several characteristics of science fiction that are absent in other genres and vice versa.

2. Some people might say that science fiction is merely for entertainment? Do you agree? Explain.

3. Discuss why Lilith's Brood falls under the genre of science fiction.

4. Why do you think literary criticism breaks down fiction into genres? Do you think the labeling of genre to a work is useful to a reader? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of Lilith's Brood, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of Lilith's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in Lilith's world. Define the words as used in in Lilith's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of Lilith's Brood. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in Living Dead in Dallas? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood from Lilith's Brood? Which ones?

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