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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Shammat want to do with Benjamin in Chapter 26?
(a) Send him to a penal colony.
(b) Re-educate him.
(c) Capture him and force him to stop being a leader, and kill him if he refuses.
(d) Assassinate him.

2. Which sibling is chubby, argumentative and jealous?
(a) None of them.
(b) Rachel.
(c) George.
(d) Benjamin.

3. What do the Shammat want to do with George in Chapter 26?
(a) Assassinate him.
(b) Continue covertly observing his activities.
(c) Send him to a penal colony.
(d) Capture him and force him to stop being a leader, and kill him if he refuses.

4. What longing does George express, in his letters in Chapter 29?
(a) A world without suffering and conflict.
(b) Peace between the Shikastans and the Canopeans.
(c) Freedom from the responsibilities of leadership.
(d) A world where they can live a thousand years and enjoy one another on a deep level.

5. How does Rachel feel about the Muslim family with whom the Sherbans associate?
(a) She feels superior to them because of her faith.
(b) She feels very close to them, and accepted by them.
(c) She feels inferior to them because of her family's lack of wealth.
(d) She feels alienated from them, and somehow different.

6. What devastating news does Rachel receive in Chapter 28?
(a) Her fiance was killed.
(b) Naseem and Shireen are dead.
(c) Her mother has cancer.
(d) She is unable to have children.

7. Lynda believes that some people don't use all of their what?
(a) Cognitive faculties.
(b) Time.
(c) Physical potential.
(d) Emotional capabilities.

8. Johor narrows his search for parents down to what two families?
(a) A British family, and one of mixed race.
(b) An Irish family and a British family.
(c) A Muslim family and a British family.
(d) An African family and a Muslim family.

9. What happens to Lynda after her lover's death?
(a) She stops eating.
(b) She kills someone.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She goes into a psychotic depression.

10. How many times have the Shammat tried to kill George, as of Chapter 31?
(a) Nine.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

11. Which sibling is fairly normal, but sometimes gets deeply depressed over things like corruption in the world?
(a) George.
(b) Rachel.
(c) None of them.
(d) Benjamin.

12. Chapter 19 details the events of what century?
(a) 20th.
(b) 21st.
(c) 19th.
(d) 18th.

13. Who is writing to George in Chapter 32?
(a) Taufiq.
(b) Suzannah.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Sharma.

14. What happened to Rachel, as detailed in Chapter 31?
(a) She suffered a mental breakdown, and committed suicide.
(b) She was injured in an assassination attempt on her brother.
(c) She was kidnapped by Shammat agents.
(d) She was killed in a youth army plot gone awry.

15. What is the sad state of Shikasta blamed on?
(a) The inherent evil nature of the Natives.
(b) The presence of the Giants.
(c) The influence of the Shammat.
(d) The lack of SOWF.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the races suppressed by the whites want to do in Chapter 33?

2. Chapter 22 details a growing gap, and more hostility, between what two groups?

3. What happens at the end of Chapter 33?

4. How is John Brent-Oxford killed?

5. Who does Johor search for when he reincarnates?

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