1.       Who were Lady Jessica’s parents? 

2.       Thufir Hawat was what? 

3.       Kynes was the Imperial Planetologist. By what name did the Fremen know him? 

4.       Who was the traitor in the Atreides household in the first book? 

5.       What are the Imperial shock troops called? 

6.       What planet was used to train the Imperial shock troops? 

7.       What did the Fremen name young Paul Atreides? 

8.       The giant sandworms are called what?

9.       What creates the Water of Life? 

10.   What did The Shadout Mapes gift to Lady Jessica? 

11.   What was Count Fenring (not in regards to his family ties or relationship to the Emperor)? 

12.   What was intended by the Bene Gesserit breeding program’s goal of creating a Kwisatz-Haderach? 

13.   What was the purpose of the Missionaria Protectiva? 

1.       Who were the conspirators in Dune Messiah?  (partial names are acceptable so long as we know who you mean.) 

2.       What did the Tleilaxu gift to Paul Maud-dib Atreides? 

3.       What was the reason that Chani couldn’t conceive a child? 

4.       How was Paul blinded?

5.       How did Paul kill the Face Dancer Scytale?

6.       What was the catalyst that caused the ghola Hayt to finally access all of Duncan Idaho’s memories and personality? 

1.       What were the names of Maud-Dib’s twins

2.       What made Alia an “abomination”? 

3.       Who sent the two Laza tigers to kill the twins? 

4.       Who caused Leto to be kidnapped, imprisoned, and deliberately dosed with massive amounts of mélange (not necessarily his captors)? 

5.       Which inner voice did Leto allow to dominate and guide him? 

6.       Why did Leto decide to destroy his father’s plan for Arrakis in favor of his new Golden Path? 

7.       How did Leto cause his body to change and become nearly immortal and impregnable? 

8.       Who killed Duncan Idaho in the third book? 

9.       Who killed Alia? 

10.   Who finally killed Paul Atreides? 

1.       What was Leto’s purpose in breeding Siona?

2.       Who did Nayla serve? 

3.       What was the name of the woman bred to specifically appeal to Leto?  Also known as the Ambassador to the Court of Lord Leto. 

4.       What are the Fish Speakers? 

1.       What was the “Scattering?” 

2.       Who or what were the Honored Matres? 

3.       Sheanna, a descendent of Siona, is able to do something that both enraptures and terrifies the Priests of Rakis. What can she do? 

4.       What does the Reverend Mother Superior, Taraza, fear the most?  Or, rather, what is her main goal? 

5.       What is different about this Duncan Idaho ghola? 

6.       What is Miles Teg’s and Sister Lucille’s relationship with the Atreides? 

7.       What do Odrade and Duncan take with them to Chapter House planet? 

8.       What was Taraza’s goal in order to restore Leto’s Golden Path? 

1.       Who is the new ghola the Sisterhood contracted for?  Miles Teg

2.       Why did the Bene Gesserit need this particular ghola?  Miles Teg was a superlative military leader and the current Reverend Mother Superior, Odrade, needed his leadership to survive an inevitable clash with the Honored Matres.

3.       What is the name of the captured Honored Matre that Odrade wants to convert into a Reverend Mother?  Murbella

4.       Why is Scytale kept imprisoned by the Bene Gesserit?  Odrade wants the secret of using the axtolt tanks to create spice.

5.       What unanticipated skill does the new ghola have that terrifies him should the Sisterhood learn of it?  Miles Teg is now able to ‘see’ no-ships.

6.       What did Murbella accomplish in order to save the Sisterhood?  She assumed command/control of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres.

7.       Where did Idaho and Sheeana go?  To an unidentifiable universe

8.       Frank Herbert left one final mystery at the end of the book.  Who or what were the watchers that Idaho detected?  A pair of Face Dancers, Marty and Daniel, who apparently broke the hold the Bene Tleilaxu had on them, to be independent.

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