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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 19 also describes the plight of what group of people on Shikasta?
(a) The Muslims.
(b) The poorest.
(c) The Giants.
(d) Women.

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

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

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

5. Who is writing to George in Chapter 29?
(a) Suzannah.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Sharma.

6. What creates the most anxiety in humans, according to Chapter 14?
(a) The horrors of war and other conflicts.
(b) Short lifespans.
(c) Intolerance between races.
(d) Religious insecurities.

7. What do the races suppressed by the whites want to do in Chapter 33?
(a) Join forces to regain control over global politics.
(b) Put the whites on a public trial.
(c) Exterminate the whites.
(d) Appeal to the Canopeans to get the whites shipped off of Shikasta.

8. Why is Rachel unable to understand some conversations between George and his teachers?
(a) She has too little SOWF.
(b) She was not as well-educated as he.
(c) They used technical jargon.
(d) They often spoke in a foreign language.

9. Who is the Jewish woman who taught George in New York?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Suzannah.
(c) Rilla.
(d) Rachel.

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

11. Who does Johor search for when he reincarnates?
(a) Taufiq.
(b) Ben and Rilla.
(c) David and Sais.
(d) Suzannah and Rachel.

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

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

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

15. Who is Suzannah?
(a) George's teacher.
(b) George's girlfriend.
(c) Benjamin's neighbor.
(d) Rachel's roommate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John Brent-Oxford's argument in Chapter 33?

2. What happened to Rachel, as detailed in Chapter 31?

3. Who is Tafta?

4. What do Rachel and Benjamin have to do, in Chapter 25, that George doesn't?

5. To what is the teacher in Chapter 17 contributing, according to Johor?

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