Dawn Quizzes

1 What is Lilith's last name?

Achebe

Musa

Iyapo

Ibrahim
2 How many years has Lilith been sleeping?

25

250

2.5

2500
3 Why is the food that Lilith's captors feed her special?

It is designed to fulfill her dietary and nutritional needs

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

It is designed to make her go crazy

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?

Dichaan

Jdhaya

Nikanj

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

Ayre

Nikanj

Sharad

a figment of her imagination
6 When Lilith first looks at the alien in her room, what does she think is all over his body?

tentacles

hair

worms

snakes
7 What is her immediate emotional reaction upon seeing an alien?

disgust, revulsion, and fear

confused fascination

uncontrollable sadness

searing hatred
8 What do the Oankali want with the human race?

they want to breed humans so that they can be their slaves and repopulate the world using human labor

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

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
9 Why was Lilith brought to the spaceship in the first place?

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

humanity has killed itself off thanks to a destructive and deadly nuclear war

Lilith has no memory of how she arrived and they refuse to tell her

humanity has been infected by a virus that killed 99% of its population
10 According to Jdhaya (and the rest of the Oankali), what is humanity's genetic problem?

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 highly intelligent and acquisitive, which inevitably leads to the subjugation of some humans beneath others

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 compassionate and violent at the same time, which inevitably leads to war and grief
11 Why is Jdhaya hanging out in Lilith's room?

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

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

they are testing to see how humans respond to being in close proximity with an Oankali

he is going to eventually kill her and eat her remains if she does not pass an intellectual test
12 How did Lilith's husband and child die?

they were murdered by a band of blood-hungry humans that were prowling the devastation after the nuclear war

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
13 What is Lilith's race?

East Asian

Latinx

White

Black
14 What is the first human food that Lilith eats on the ship?

an orange

a tomato

a banana

a red onion
15 When Lilith leaves her room, what does she discover?

that it was much smaller than she thought it was

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

that it was actually within a giant, living tree

that it was artificially made to smell of Earth and the rest of the ship smells alien and foul
16 Which food is NOT included in the feast that Lilith enjoys upon arriving at Jdhaya's home?

bananas

pineapple

strawberries

figs
17 Who are Jdhaya's mates?

Nikanj and Kahguyaht

Tediin and Kahguyaht

Nikanj and Tediin

Lilith and Nikanj
18 What is Kaahguyaht's sex?

ooloi

male

ooan

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

six days

two days

ten days

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

Nikanj

no one

Kahguyaht

Tediin
21 What was the food that Lilith ate each time they Awakened her?

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

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

cut up pieces of Oankali flesh

human food that had been modified to be tasteless to Lilith
22 Who can be poisoned by human food?

any Oankali that does not live in Kaal

elderly Oankali and children

no one

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

Sharad

Paul

Curt

Fukumoto
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 all bright pink

they are each driven by an animal that looks like a centipede

they float a few inches above the ground

they move extremely fast

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