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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does George Herbert feel about Lynda's claims, initially?
(a) He believes her wholeheartedly.
(b) He thinks she may be right.
(c) He has his doubts.
(d) He doesn't believe her.

2. What does Rachel do in Chapter 30 in response to hearing the rumor?
(a) She goes to find Benjamin and help him escape.
(b) She kills Suzannah.
(c) She disguises herself, and goes to find George.
(d) She goes home to protect her parents.

3. What ideologies declined during the time period described in Chapter 19?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Secular.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Religious.

4. What happens to Johor and his friends in Chapter 20?
(a) They are all arrested by the Canopean army.
(b) They journey to Shikasta, and incarnate as siblings.
(c) They are captured by the Shammat agents on Shikasta.
(d) They are recruited by the Canopean militia to fight the Shammat on Shikasta.

5. Rachel writes, in Chapter 25, that George often visits what foreign country?
(a) Japan.
(b) Scotland.
(c) India.
(d) Ireland.

6. What is happening to Benjamin in Chapter 31?
(a) He is undergoing re-education.
(b) He is being shipped off to another planet.
(c) He is being recalled to the Canopean embassy.
(d) He is being held in a Shammat penitentiary.

7. Chapter 19 describes the rise of what activity?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Drug use.
(c) Teen pregnancy.
(d) Suicide.

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

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

10. According to Chapter 14, what is most divisive among humans?
(a) The generation gap.
(b) Scientific thought.
(c) Nationalities.
(d) Religious differences.

11. Chapter 22 details a growing gap, and more hostility, between what two groups?
(a) The Natives and the Giants.
(b) Rich and poor.
(c) The Canopeans and the Shammat.
(d) Whites and minorities.

12. Chapter 22 describes the rise of what, as a result of the economic and social problems on Shikasta?
(a) Police brutality.
(b) Youth armies.
(c) Organized crime.
(d) Gang warfare.

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

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

15. Who is George Herbert?
(a) Lynda's plastic surgeon.
(b) Lynda's psychiatrist.
(c) Lynda's brother.
(d) Lynda's lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the mock trial?

2. Which sibling is fairly normal, but sometimes gets deeply depressed over things like corruption in the world?

3. What happens at the end of Chapter 33?

4. How does Rachel feel about the Muslim family with whom the Sherbans associate?

5. Rachel states in Chapter 30 that George had ordered her to do what?

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