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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Taufiq was incarnated on Shikasta after what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Russo-American War.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) World War I.

2. What does Johor say about the religion of the white races in Chapter 13?
(a) It resulted in more deaths than the wars did.
(b) It is the most bigoted religion in history.
(c) It is morally inferior to other religions.
(d) It was the largest to ever exist on Shikasta.

3. Chapter 8 describes the British as being tolerant of a high degree of what?
(a) Economic inequality.
(b) Racist behavior.
(c) Illiteracy.
(d) Lack of education.

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

5. How does Johor feel about the state of Shikasta, upon his return?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He is saddened.
(d) He is apathetic.

6. Johor returns to Shikasta how many years after his first visit?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 300.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

8. What makes Shikasta unusual?
(a) All life preys on all other life.
(b) It was never able to receive SOWF.
(c) It has a particularly low population.
(d) It has a mixture of native and introduced life forms.

9. By the end of the twentieth century, Shikasta's population is reduced by how much?
(a) 20%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 99%.
(d) 50%

10. Who are the Shammat?
(a) The species that act as a liaison between the Natives and the Canopeans.
(b) The new species introduced to Shikasta by the Canopeans.
(c) The Canopean agents assigned to Shikasta.
(d) Dangerous beings in the Southern Hemisphere of Shikasta.

11. The very nature of Shikasta results in what?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Tension.

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

13. What is the Shammat transmitter made of?
(a) Uridium.
(b) Creatonin.
(c) Effluon 3.
(d) Unobtainium.

14. How many concentric shells does Shikasta contain?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The history in Chapter 10 ends around what year?

2. What does Johor tell the Giants, in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 6, to whom does Johor teach some of the basic tenets of Canopean civilization?

4. In Chapter 9, Taufiq reports that what major change has taken place on Earth?

5. The Canopeans decide to split the Natives' what, in Chapter 9?

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