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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 2 is a guide, written for whom?
(a) Shammat agents.
(b) Colonial servants.
(c) Canopean emissaries.
(d) Youth army members.

2. What was Taufiq supposed to become when he incarnated on Shikasta?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A politician.

3. How are the cities on Shikasta constructed?
(a) There are no cities, only small villages.
(b) In geometrical shapes, with special rock formations.
(c) Built into the sides of mountains.
(d) In underground caverns.

4. In Chapter 9, Taufiq reports the end of what?
(a) The Natives' time on Shikasta.
(b) The Ice Age.
(c) The Giants' reign of terror.
(d) World War III.

5. What happened to the ethical laws Johor gave to the Shikastans?
(a) They were completely forgotten.
(b) They were replaced by codes that the Shikastans wrote on their own.
(c) They were built into religions.
(d) They were adopted as an unwritten code of conduct.

6. What "ideology" do the Canopeans consider most dangerous?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Military interference.
(c) Science.
(d) Intelligent design.

7. What happens to the remainder of Shikasta's inhabitants?
(a) They are temporarily relocated to a space station.
(b) They are transported to a Shammat holding facility.
(c) They are scattered to other planets.
(d) They are reconnected to SOWF.

8. The ceremony discussed by Johor in Chapter 13 originated in what country?
(a) Italy.
(b) Ireland.
(c) America.
(d) Brazil.

9. Dwarves and Elves were created by what species?
(a) Sirians.
(b) Canopeans.
(c) Shammat.
(d) Shikastans.

10. The Canopean phrase "Age of Ideology" refers to what time?
(a) The period between World War I and World War II.
(b) The period before World War I.
(c) The period after World War II.
(d) The period after the Shikastan apocalypse.

11. Who is Jarsum?
(a) Another Canopean emissary.
(b) Johor's brother.
(c) A Shammat agent.
(d) The leader of the Giants.

12. The history in Chapter 10 ends around what year?
(a) 500 B.C.
(b) 1000 A.D.
(c) 2000 A.D.
(d) 500 A.D.

13. What did the Sirian Empire do on Rohanda?
(a) Performed plant and animal experimentation.
(b) Built cities, and attempted to settle it.
(c) Attempted to interact with the Natives, but eventually declared war on them.
(d) Sent all of their exiled prisoners there.

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

15. How are the Giants affected when Shikasta is cut off from the Lock?
(a) They are no longer able to communicate with the Natives.
(b) They become enraged.
(c) They fall into a deep hibernation.
(d) They lose some of their cognitive powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Johor say about the religion of the white races in Chapter 13?

2. Who was responsible for influencing some special individuals in the last days of Shikasta?

3. What was the second individual's childhood like?

4. Generally speaking, what is the most important rule of Canopus?

5. What is Johor's relationship to Taufiq?

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