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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Johor have to spend extra time on Shikasta?
(a) He is being punished.
(b) He is looking for two of his friends.
(c) Taufiq gets captured.
(d) He is unable to get home.

2. Who is Jarsum?
(a) Johor's brother.
(b) The leader of the Giants.
(c) Another Canopean emissary.
(d) A Shammat agent.

3. What is the condition of the Shikastan cities in Chapter 9?
(a) They no longer exist.
(b) They are slowly being rebuilt.
(c) They are still uninhabitable.
(d) They are back to normal.

4. In Chapter 9, Taufiq reports that what major change has taken place on Earth?
(a) The rainforests are gone.
(b) The magnetic poles have flipped.
(c) Most islands are underwater.
(d) The ozone layer has disappeared.

5. Johor's worst experience is with what planet?
(a) Rohanda.
(b) Shammat.
(c) Shikasta.
(d) Puttioria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the first individual have a nervous breakdown?

2. The ceremony discussed by Johor in Chapter 13 originated in what country?

3. What makes Shikasta unusual?

4. The Canopeans' choice to split the Natives is reminiscent of what story from the Old Testament?

5. Who is Johor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event in Chapter 9 parallels a story from the Old Testament?

2. What does Johor report regarding Taufiq in Chapter 7?

3. How are the shells of Shikasta organized?

4. How are the British people described in Chapter 8?

5. What is said about religion in Chapter 10?

6. How would John Brent-Oxford have defended individual two, and what would the result of the trial have been?

7. What is Johor's mission, when he incarnates on Shikasta in Chapter 6?

8. What information is given in Chapter 6 about the Shammat transmitter on Shikasta?

9. Who are the Giants?

10. Who is Taufiq?

(see the answer keys)

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