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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this new Idaho teach the Guard members?

2. What is one thing that makes Leto vulnerable?

3. At the beginning of the story, how many people are fleeing through the Forbidden Forest?

4. When the rebels meet in a storage chamber beneath Onn, how many rebels are present?

5. According to Leto's predictions of the future, when Leto dies and returns to the sand, what will Leto become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Iyo Kobat and why was he banished from Arrakis?

2. In order to increase their chances of success during the attack of Leto's procession near the Idaho River, what do the Face Dancers do?

3. According to the first conversation to take place between Leto and Nayla, what does Leto demand of Nayla?

4. How has Leto kept peace for the 3,000 years of his reign?

5. After being informed by Idaho that there have been attacks on the guards and spotty violence in the City and in the Forbidden Forest, Leto orders human wolves introduced into the forest. Why?

6. What does Leto learn about Siona during his meeting with Nayla?

7. Why does Leto use all female armies?

8. Leto pictures Noree as an idealized nun. Why?

9. Why is melange the most valuable substance known to humankind?

10. According to what Leto, what will happen when the melange is gone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characteristics and roles of Idahos and Atreides in the story. What historical role has each group served? What is each group's overall purpose? How does Leto use each group to further his own purposes? Support your answers with examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Leto holds many different and sometimes controversial ideas. Describe Leto's reasoning and the actions he takes because of his beliefs on the following statements:

a. Male armies are dangerous.

b. Ixians are the criminals of science.

c. Death is any creature's most profound experience.

Essay Topic 3

The Great Convention bans the use of atomic weapons against human targets and bans "thinking machines." Leto, however, turns a blind eye to the technologies Ixians invent.

a. Explain why Leto's allows the Ixians to continue outlawed practices.

b. How do the Ixian inventions benefit Leto?

c. How do the Ixian inventions threaten Leto?

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