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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the "primitive" peoples do, after the Second World War?
(a) Continue life as they did previously, without much change.
(b) Retreat into the wilderness, and avoid contact with civilization.
(c) Rise up and resist oppression.
(d) Shun any influence of civilization on their peoples.

3. Generally speaking, what is the most important rule of Canopus?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Pride.
(c) Love.
(d) Nationalism.

4. What is the Shammat transmitter made of?
(a) Effluon 3.
(b) Unobtainium.
(c) Creatonin.
(d) Uridium.

5. What will eventually happen to the Shammat transmitter?
(a) It will degrade.
(b) It will be taken back by the Shammat.
(c) It will explode.
(d) It will be assimilated by the surrounding plant life.

Short Answer Questions

1. The very nature of Shikasta results in what?

2. Who are the Shammat?

3. How many concentric shells does Shikasta contain?

4. What happens to the remainder of Shikasta's inhabitants?

5. What "ideology" do the Canopeans consider most dangerous?

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