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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Rachel's feelings about Suzannah change in Chapter 30?
(a) She begins to hate Suzannah.
(b) She develops love for Suzannah.
(c) She begins to admire Suzannah.
(d) She begins to distrust Suzannah.

2. Why does Johor want to find his comrades in Chapter 20?
(a) He needs them to help him round up the other souls.
(b) So he can convince them to reincarnate with him.
(c) He has a message from the embassy for them.
(d) They are in imminent danger.

3. What is John Brent-Oxford's role, in Chapter 33?
(a) He is the judge.
(b) He is the Prosecutor.
(c) He is the court scribe.
(d) He is the defense attorney.

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

5. What ideologies rose to replace the declining ones, in Chapter 19?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Religious.
(c) None.
(d) Secular.

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

7. To what is the teacher in Chapter 17 contributing, according to Johor?
(a) Spreading the word of God.
(b) Progressive thinking in the next generation.
(c) An overthrow of Christian dominion.
(d) Scientific progression.

8. How much SOWF does Lynda believe she receives?
(a) 4 or 5%.
(b) 6 or 7%.
(c) 5 or 6%.
(d) 3 or 4%.

9. How is John Brent-Oxford killed?
(a) A Shammat assassination.
(b) George kills him.
(c) A falling rock.
(d) A rogue assassin.

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

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

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

13. What rumor does Rachel hear in Chapter 30?
(a) There is a plot to kill George.
(b) George is a Shammat spy.
(c) Suzannah is pregnant.
(d) Benjamin has been brainwashed.

14. Who stages the mock trial in Chapter 33?
(a) Shammat dignitaries.
(b) The youth armies.
(c) Canopean emissaries.
(d) The white races.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times have the Shammat tried to kill George, as of Chapter 31?

2. How much SOWF does Lynda believe other people receive?

3. Johor narrows his search for parents down to what two families?

4. What do the Shammat want to do with Benjamin in Chapter 26?

5. Chapter 19 also describes the plight of what group of people on Shikasta?

(see the answer keys)

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