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

2. Johor notes, upon his return, that the people of Shikasta have physically changed in what way?
(a) They are shorter.
(b) They are heavier.
(c) They are thinner.
(d) They are taller.

3. What does Johor tell the Giants, in Chapter 6?
(a) That the Canopeans wish to relocate them.
(b) To establish a friendship with the Natives.
(c) To prepare for a disaster.
(d) That they should join the war against the Shammat.

4. What happens to Rohanda after it is cut off from the Lock?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The Shammat are able to drain it even faster.
(c) The Canopeans abandon it.
(d) It is abandoned by all of its inhabitants.

5. The "Northwest Fringes" are analogous to what nonfictional place?
(a) Japan.
(b) North America.
(c) Russia.
(d) Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cuts Rohanda off from the Lock?

2. Why does Johor incarnate on Shikasta?

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

4. What does the second individual become?

5. Who distorts the ceremony Johor describes in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comments does Johor make about the white races in Chapter 13?

2. What were the consequences of John Brent-Oxford's decision to become a politician?

3. What period of Shikastan history is covered by the reports in Chapter 9?

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

5. What is said about religion in Chapter 10?

6. How did individual eight's life end?

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

8. What is reported in Chapter 9 regarding the Natives, Dwarves and Elves?

9. What does Johor notice about the Natives upon his return to Shikasta after 30,000 years?

10. Who was the first individual introduced in Chapter 11, and what would John Brent-Oxford have done for her as a lawyer?

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