Dawn Quizzes

Dawn Quiz 1

1 What is Lilith's last name?
Iyapo

Ibrahim

Achebe

Musa
2 How many years has Lilith been sleeping?
2500

250

2.5

25
3 Why is the food that Lilith's captors feed her special?
It is designed to make her go crazy

It is designed to fulfill her dietary and nutritional needs

It actually does not exist and is a figment of her imagination

It does not taste like anything and feels like glue in her mouth
4 What is the name of the Oankali that Lilith first meets?
Nikanj

Kahguyaht

Jdhaya

Dichaan
5 Who is the little boy that Lilith meets in her room?
Nikanj

a figment of her imagination

Ayre

Sharad
6 When Lilith first looks at the alien in her room, what does she think is all over his body?
hair

snakes

worms

tentacles
7 What is her immediate emotional reaction upon seeing an alien?
uncontrollable sadness

disgust, revulsion, and fear

searing hatred

confused fascination
8 What do the Oankali want with the human race?
they want the humans to heal and then want to leave them alone on Earth so that they can begin their society again

they want to trade genetic code with the humans and produce a new race of half-human, half-Oankali offspring

they want to learn human knowledge and go back in time with themselves as the human leaders

they want to breed humans so that they can be their slaves and repopulate the world using human labor
9 Why was Lilith brought to the spaceship in the first place?
Lilith has no memory of how she arrived and they refuse to tell her

Lilith was one of the first astronauts to set foot on Mars and was subsequently abducted by the Oankali

humanity has been infected by a virus that killed 99% of its population

humanity has killed itself off thanks to a destructive and deadly nuclear war
10 According to Jdhaya (and the rest of the Oankali), what is humanity's genetic problem?
we are genetically programmed to be highly intelligent and hierarchical, which leads to violence and the destruction of humanity

we are genetically programmed to be highly intelligent and acquisitive, which inevitably leads to the subjugation of some humans beneath others

we are genetically programmed to be compassionate and hierarchical, which leads to many members of humanity not fulfilling their true potential

we are genetically programmed to be compassionate and violent at the same time, which inevitably leads to war and grief
11 Why is Jdhaya hanging out in Lilith's room?
he is going to eventually kill her and eat her remains if she does not pass an intellectual test

she must mate with him to be able to be allowed to leave her cell

she must get used to him before she can be allowed to leave her cell

they are testing to see how humans respond to being in close proximity with an Oankali
12 How did Lilith's husband and child die?
they died of a car crash years before the nuclear war began

they died in the first blasts of the nuclear war

they died of starvation in the nuclear winter that the war caused

they were murdered by a band of blood-hungry humans that were prowling the devastation after the nuclear war
13 What is Lilith's race?
Latinx

White

Black

East Asian
14 What is the first human food that Lilith eats on the ship?
a red onion

a banana

an orange

a tomato
15 When Lilith leaves her room, what does she discover?
that it was artificially made to smell of Earth and the rest of the ship smells alien and foul

that it was actually within a giant, living tree

that it was built with one-way glass, which meant that the Oankali could watch her at all times

that it was much smaller than she thought it was
16 Which food is NOT included in the feast that Lilith enjoys upon arriving at Jdhaya's home?
figs

pineapple

bananas

strawberries
17 Who are Jdhaya's mates?
Nikanj and Kahguyaht

Lilith and Nikanj

Tediin and Kahguyaht

Nikanj and Tediin
18 What is Kaahguyaht's sex?
ooloi

male

ooan

female
19 How long was Jdhaya in Lilith's room?
four days

six days

ten days

two days
20 Who does Lilith not like from Jdhaya's family?
Kahguyaht

Nikanj

no one

Tediin
21 What was the food that Lilith ate each time they Awakened her?
human food that had been modified to be tasteless to Lilith

a stew made from the parts of the animal that were generally thrown away on Earth

a fruit from a pseudotree engineered to meet her exact dietary needs

cut up pieces of Oankali flesh
22 Who can be poisoned by human food?
any Oankali that does not live in Tiej

elderly Oankali and children

no one

any Oankali that does not live in Kaal
23 Who does Kahguyaht take Lilith to see?
Sharad

Fukumoto

Paul

Curt
24 Where is this person sleeping?
in a plant

in a cold, dark room

strapped to an examination table

suspended in a cryogenic chamber
25 What is notable about the vehicles that Oankali use to get around?
they are each driven by an animal that looks like a centipede

they are all bright pink

they move extremely fast

they float a few inches above the ground

How does dawn connect to our society through science fiction?

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Dawn

"Then I suppose it would eventually have killed me."

"Yes. It would have. And your people were in a similar position. If they had been able to perceive and solve their problem, they might have been able to avoid destruction. Of course, they too...

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Do you mean the westing game

What are you asking here?

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