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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Johor's worst experience is with what planet?
(a) Rohanda.
(b) Puttioria.
(c) Shikasta.
(d) Shammat.

3. The "Northwest Fringes" are analogous to what nonfictional place?
(a) Russia.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Japan.
(d) North America.

4. What is Johor's job?
(a) Recruiting new soldiers for the youth groups.
(b) Tending to the order of the Canopean colonies.
(c) Observing the results of the genetic experiments in the Southern Hemisphere.
(d) Monitoring the flow of SOWF.

5. The Canopeans' choice to split the Natives is reminiscent of what story from the Old Testament?
(a) Sodom and Gomorrah.
(b) Jonah and the whale.
(c) Lot and his wife.
(d) The Tower of Babel.

6. What happens to Rohanda after it is cut off from the Lock?
(a) The Canopeans abandon it.
(b) It is abandoned by all of its inhabitants.
(c) The Shammat are able to drain it even faster.
(d) Nothing.

7. What was Taufiq's name when he incarnated on Shikasta?
(a) James Sheridan.
(b) Jason Urbane.
(c) Benjamin Sherban.
(d) John Brent-Oxford.

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

9. Where does the first individual have a nervous breakdown?
(a) In a courtroom.
(b) In a restaurant.
(c) In her car.
(d) In her home.

10. What would have the second individual's defense have been, if she had the proper lawyer?
(a) That she was an unwilling participant in the crime.
(b) That she was a victim of indoctrination.
(c) That she was falsely accused.
(d) That she was criminally insane.

11. In Chapter 12, what is Johor unable to do?
(a) Convince Taufiq to leave Shikasta.
(b) Find a way off of Shikasta.
(c) Contact the special individuals.
(d) Find his friends Ben and Rilla.

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

13. Who is tapping the energies of Rohanda, in Chapter 6?
(a) The Canopeans.
(b) The Shammat.
(c) The Giants.
(d) The Puttiorians.

14. According to Chapter 10, who formed the major Shikastan religions?
(a) Emissaries.
(b) The Shammat.
(c) The Puttiorians.
(d) The Giants.

15. What does the Lock do?
(a) Keeps the Natives and the Giants separated.
(b) Prevents Rohanda's enemies from penetrating its atmosphere.
(c) Connects Rohanda to the galactic flow of energies.
(d) Prevents Rohanda's inhabitants from leaving the planet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Johor attempt to do to his friends after finding them?

2. What do the "primitive" peoples do, after the Second World War?

3. In Chapter 9, Taufiq reports the end of what?

4. Johor returns to Shikasta how many years after his first visit?

5. How do the Canopeans view the 20th century?

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