Dune Quizzes

Dune Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Dune?
Philip K. Dick

Frank Herbert

Isaac Asimov

Ursula K. Le Guin
2 When was Dune first published in hardcover?
1961

1991

1995

1965
3 Who is the main character?
Paul

Leto

Gurney

Chani
4 Does the main character have any other name(s)?
Yes - Shai-Hulud and The Wise One

Yes - Muad'Dib and Usul

No - He just has one name

No - He loses his name halfway through
5 What is the main character's father's name?
Vladimir Atreides

Leto Atreides

Gurney Halleck

Gurney Atreides
6 What is the main character's mother's name?
Jessica

Irulan

Chani

Rebecca
7 Who trained Jessica?
The Bene Gesserit

Her mother

The Mentats

The Harkonnens
8 Who tests Paul with the gom jabbar?
Lady Jessica

Duke Leto Atreides

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
9 What is the Reverend Mother's relationship to Jessica?
Her rival

Her aunt

Her teacher

Her mother
10 What do the Bene Gesserit seek?
To kill the Emperor

The spice

The Kwisatz Haderach

The Lisan al-Gaib
11 Where is Paul from?
Caladan

Giedi Prime

Arrakis

Wallach IX
12 What does "Kwisatz Haderach" mean?
The Lightening of the Burden

The Coming of the One

The Shortening of the Way

The One Who Walks with Mice
13 What is a Mentat?
A human who has ridden a sandworm

A human who can perform extreme feats of logic, like a computer

A human who can control other humans with their mind

A human who is trained in the weirding way of fighting
14 Who is Mentat for House Atreides?
Duncan Idaho

Piter de Vries

Gurney Halleck

Thufir Hawat
15 Who taught Paul to fight?
No one

Jessica and Leto

His future self

Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho
16 What Great House is trying to destroy House Atreides?
House Stilgar

House Fenring

House Giedi

House Harkonnen
17 What is the Spacing Guild?
The Guild controls all politics and tells the Emperor what to do

The Guild controls space travel, one of three political forces in the cosmos

The Guild controls all finances and banks, one of three political forces in the cosmos

The Guild is a bunch of old men who sit around and do nothing
18 Who is Shaddam IV?
The head of House Atreides

The head of the Spacing Guild

Duke Leto's publicly sworn nemesis

The 81st Padishah Emperor
19 What does the Reverend Mother test Paul with?
a multiple-choice quiz

gom jabbar

spice

a fight to the death
20 Why do the Harkonnens hate the Atreides?
The Atreides are related to the Emperor, while the Harkonnens bought their title

An Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after a battle

They have very different worldviews

All of the above
21 Who is the head of House Harkonnen?
Vladimir

Piter

Feyd-Rautha

Rabban
22 Who is Mentat for the Harkonnens at the start of the novel?
Piter de Vries

Hasimir Fenring

Iakin Nefud

Thufir Hawat
23 What is the Landsraad?
The political body that controls the spice on Arrakis, one of three political forces in the cosmos

Another name for the slave-gladiator pits

Another name for sandworms

The political body that represents the Great Houses, one of three political forces in the cosmos
24 Which planet is called Dune?
Salusa Secundus

Arrakis

Wallach IX

Caladan
25 Why is House Atreides moving to Arrakis?
The Landsraad told them to

The Emperor told them to

They bought it from the Harkonnens

To return to their ancestral home

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