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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. What other friend does Johor find in Chapter 12?
(a) Abraham.
(b) David.
(c) Taufiq.
(d) Ranee.

2. The history in Chapter 10 ends around what year?
(a) 500 B.C.
(b) 500 A.D.
(c) 2000 A.D.
(d) 1000 A.D.

3. The Canopeans' choice to split the Natives is reminiscent of what story from the Old Testament?
(a) Jonah and the whale.
(b) Sodom and Gomorrah.
(c) Lot and his wife.
(d) The Tower of Babel.

4. What happens to individual eight that makes her so unhappy?
(a) She is let go, quickly and unceremoniously, by her long-term employer.
(b) Her family is killed by the Shammat.
(c) She is jailed for a crime she didn't commit.
(d) She is raped.

5. By the end of the twentieth century, Shikasta's population is reduced by how much?
(a) 20%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 50%
(d) 99%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between the Giants and Natives on Shikasta?

2. What would have been the result of the second individual's trial, if it had gone according to plan?

3. In Chapter 8, Britain and other European countries are blamed for what?

4. Taufiq was incarnated on Shikasta after what war?

5. What do the Canopean emissaries sometimes do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the ceremony that Canopean emissaries brought to Ireland?

2. What is the "Age of Ideology"?

3. What is said about religion in Chapter 10?

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

5. How is Shikasta described at the beginning of the novel?

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

7. Who is Taufiq?

8. Who are the Giants?

9. What is said in Chapter 8 regarding World War II?

10. What is the main Canopean ideology?

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