Dune Quizzes

Dune Quiz 1

By Hannah Lindsey · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed December 13, 2021

1 Who wrote Dune?

Isaac Asimov

Frank Herbert

Philip K. Dick

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

1995

1991

1965

1961
3 Who is the main character?

Gurney

Paul

Leto

Chani
4 Does the main character have any other name(s)?

Yes - Shai-Hulud and The Wise One

No - He loses his name halfway through

No - He just has one name

Yes - Muad'Dib and Usul
5 What is the main character's father's name?

Gurney Halleck

Vladimir Atreides

Gurney Atreides

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

Chani

Rebecca

Irulan

Jessica
7 Who trained Jessica?

Her mother

The Bene Gesserit

The Harkonnens

The Mentats
8 Who tests Paul with the gom jabbar?

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Duke Leto Atreides

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

Lady Jessica
9 What is the Reverend Mother's relationship to Jessica?

Her rival

Her mother

Her aunt

Her teacher
10 What do the Bene Gesserit seek?

The Lisan al-Gaib

The Kwisatz Haderach

The spice

To kill the Emperor
11 Where is Paul from?

Wallach IX

Arrakis

Giedi Prime

Caladan
12 What does "Kwisatz Haderach" mean?

The Coming of the One

The One Who Walks with Mice

The Shortening of the Way

The Lightening of the Burden
13 What is a Mentat?

A human who can control other humans with their mind

A human who is trained in the weirding way of fighting

A human who has ridden a sandworm

A human who can perform extreme feats of logic, like a computer
14 Who is Mentat for House Atreides?

Piter de Vries

Thufir Hawat

Gurney Halleck

Duncan Idaho
15 Who taught Paul to fight?

His future self

Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho

Jessica and Leto

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

House Fenring

House Giedi

House Harkonnen

House Stilgar
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 is a bunch of old men who sit around and do nothing

The Guild controls all finances and banks, one of three political forces in the cosmos
18 Who is Shaddam IV?

Duke Leto's publicly sworn nemesis

The 81st Padishah Emperor

The head of House Atreides

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

gom jabbar

a fight to the death

a multiple-choice quiz

spice
20 Why do the Harkonnens hate the Atreides?

The Atreides are related to the Emperor, while the Harkonnens bought their title

They have very different worldviews

An Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after a battle

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

Piter

Vladimir

Feyd-Rautha

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

Iakin Nefud

Piter de Vries

Hasimir Fenring

Thufir Hawat
23 What is the Landsraad?

Another name for the slave-gladiator pits

Another name for sandworms

The political body that controls the spice on Arrakis, one of three political forces in the cosmos

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

Salusa Secundus

Wallach IX

Caladan

Arrakis
25 Why is House Atreides moving to Arrakis?

The Landsraad told them to

The Emperor told them to

To return to their ancestral home

They bought it from the Harkonnens

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