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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 worries Akin about his appearance?

3. What does Akin argue about on the shuttle?

4. What form of body does Akin prefer?

5. Why does Jodahs look as he does?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Tino healed and what must he do for the birth of his sibling?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Aaor say about Jodahs after he links with him and what does Nikanj say about Jodahs?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Lilith's world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you were human? What about if you were Oankali? Explain your response.

3. If you had an ooloi's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from Lilith's Brood and your own life to illustrate your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The time this novel takes place in the future. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think technology in "real life" will have advanced as far as it has in Lilith's Brood? Do you think it will have advanced further? Explain thoroughly with examples.

2. What do you think are the difficulties of creating a setting far into the future? What are the advantages?

3. Many science fiction novels written in the early 20th century actually "predicts" some technology that is commonplace during the first decade of the 21st century. Research some early science fiction novels and discuss how much of the "pretend" technology is actually "real" now. How you think Napoleon Hill's belief that "what man can conceive and believe, man can achieve" can explain how technology in early science fiction is now a reality?

Essay Topic 3

Living Dead in Dallas belongs to the science fiction genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to science fiction.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre.

3. Discuss two reasons why it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

4. Discuss what your favorite genre is; give several examples and explain what you enjoy about books in that genre.

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