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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the first individual feel about her countrymen?
(a) She feels that some of them do not belong there.
(b) She feels alienated from them.
(c) She feels a strong sense of patriotism.
(d) She feels connected to them.

2. What do the "primitive" peoples do, after the Second World War?
(a) Retreat into the wilderness, and avoid contact with civilization.
(b) Rise up and resist oppression.
(c) Continue life as they did previously, without much change.
(d) Shun any influence of civilization on their peoples.

3. What happens to the cities once Shikasta is cut off from the Lock?
(a) They disappear.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They become uninhabitable.
(d) They burn down.

4. Who distorts the ceremony Johor describes in Chapter 13?
(a) Buddhists.
(b) A small cult.
(c) Satanists.
(d) Christian monks.

5. What does Johor try to locate on Shikasta, in Chapter 6?
(a) The Shammat transmittor.
(b) The capitol city of the Natives.
(c) The Canopean embassy.
(d) The capitol city of the Giants.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Johor, in his report in Chapter 13, what did the white races do?

2. Chapter 8 describes the British as being tolerant of a high degree of what?

3. What happened to Taufiq as a result of his chosen profession?

4. Who is Jarsum?

5. What happens to the remainder of Shikasta's inhabitants?

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