Dune

Part 1, Chapters 1-10

Reading Check

1. A poison needle (Chapter 1)

2. Polish (Chapter 5)

3. A crysknife (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. The Reverend Mother is angry with Jessica because she was instructed only to have daughters but had a son with Duke Leto. (Chapter 3)

2. Duke Leto hopes to combat the Sardaukar by training an army of Fremen. (Chapter 6)

3. Jessica finds out that there is a trap set for Paul because she can read the encoded message left by another member of the Bene Gesserit. (Chapter 10)

Part 1, Chapters 11-22

Reading Check

1. Coffee (Chapter 17)

2. The tooth (Chapter 18)

3. Privacy (Chapter 22)

Short Answer

1. The Fremen are immune to many common poisons because they constantly ingest spice. (Chapter 14)

2. Duke Leto plans to deal with the smugglers by allowing them to continue as long as they pay a tax. (Chapter 12)

3. Baron Harkonnen kills Dr. Yueh because he doesn’t trust a traitor, even a traitor that worked for him. (Chapter 21)

Part 2, Chapters 23-29

Reading Check

1. Sire or my lord (Chapter 25)

2. Rabban (Chapter 26)

3. “My Woman” (Chapter 28)

Short Answer

1. Thufir Hawat gains the trust of the Fremen by allowing them to drain the water from one of his men. (Chapter 24)

2. Paul’s solution is to create a foam by mixing water, the acid from the compass’s power pack, and the spice. The foam creates a barrier against the sand so they can dig the supplies out. (Chapter 27)

3. Paul and Jessica try to adopt the unnatural walk used by the Fremen because it does not attract the worms’ attention. (Chapter 29)

Part 2, Chapters 30-37

Reading Check

1. The weirding way (Chapter 31)

2. Sheds tears (Chapter 34)

3. Green (Chapter 37)

Short Answer

1. Kynes is glad to see the birds because he believes his fellow Fremen will investigate and save him from death in the desert. (Chapter 30)

2. According to Fremen custom, Paul must take responsibility for Jamis’s wife, Harah, because he bested Jamis in combat. (Chapter 36)

3. Stilgar thinks Paul’s chosen name, Muad’Dib, is wise because the muad’dib understands how to live in the desert. (Chapter 33)

Part 3, Chapters 38-48

Reading Check

1. 10 million (Chapter 39)

2. The shield wall (Chapter 46)

3. Chani (Chapter 48)

Short Answer

1. As punishment, Feyd-Rautha must kill all of the concubines in the slave quarters. (Chapter 38)

2. Paul needs to ride a maker to prove himself as a leader amongst the Fremen. (Chapter 40)

3. Paul undertakes the test of the Reverend Mothers to determine whether he is genuinely the Kwisatz Haderach. (Chapter 44)