Dune Quizzes

Dune Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Dune?
Isaac Asimov

Ursula K. Le Guin

Frank Herbert

Philip K. Dick
2 When was Dune first published in hardcover?
1991

1995

1961

1965
3 Who is the main character?
Gurney

Paul

Chani

Leto
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?
Gurney Atreides

Gurney Halleck

Vladimir Atreides

Leto Atreides
6 What is the main character's mother's name?
Rebecca

Chani

Irulan

Jessica
7 Who trained Jessica?
The Harkonnens

Her mother

The Bene Gesserit

The Mentats
8 Who tests Paul with the gom jabbar?
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Lady Jessica

Duke Leto Atreides
9 What is the Reverend Mother's relationship to Jessica?
Her rival

Her aunt

Her mother

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

The Lisan al-Gaib

The Kwisatz Haderach

The spice
11 Where is Paul from?
Giedi Prime

Arrakis

Caladan

Wallach IX
12 What does "Kwisatz Haderach" mean?
The One Who Walks with Mice

The Lightening of the Burden

The Coming of the One

The Shortening of the Way
13 What is a Mentat?
A human who can perform extreme feats of logic, like a computer

A human who is trained in the weirding way of fighting

A human who can control other humans with their mind

A human who has ridden a sandworm
14 Who is Mentat for House Atreides?
Gurney Halleck

Thufir Hawat

Duncan Idaho

Piter de Vries
15 Who taught Paul to fight?
His future self

Jessica and Leto

Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho

No one
16 What Great House is trying to destroy House Atreides?
House Stilgar

House Harkonnen

House Giedi

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

The Guild is a bunch of old men who sit around and do nothing

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
18 Who is Shaddam IV?
The head of House Atreides

The 81st Padishah Emperor

Duke Leto's publicly sworn nemesis

The head of the Spacing Guild
19 What does the Reverend Mother test Paul with?
spice

a fight to the death

gom jabbar

a multiple-choice quiz
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?
Piter

Feyd-Rautha

Vladimir

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

Thufir Hawat

Iakin Nefud

Hasimir Fenring
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 sandworms

The political body that represents the Great Houses, one of three political forces in the cosmos

Another name for the slave-gladiator pits
24 Which planet is called Dune?
Salusa Secundus

Arrakis

Wallach IX

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

They bought it from the Harkonnens

The Landsraad told them to

To return to their ancestral home

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