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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, An Orgota Creation Myth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Genly think about going next, and where does he actually decide to go?
(a) The Pering Ice/the Gobrin Ice.
(b) The Gobrin Ice/the Pering Ice.
(c) The Fastnesses/Orgoreyn.
(d) Orgoreyn/the Fastnesses.

2. When Getheren leaves Orhoch, what name does he travel under?
(a) Hode.
(b) Orgoreyn.
(c) Genly Ai.
(d) Ennoch.

3. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?
(a) Edondurath.
(b) The Gobrin Ice.
(c) Sun and ice.
(d) Nothing--the world was without form and void.

4. When Stokven realizes he was lied to, what does he do?
(a) He becomes a traitor to his country and moves to Estre.
(b) He banishes the men who lied to him.
(c) He gives up his position and relocates permanently to a fastness.
(d) He kills the men who lied to him.

5. In this story, what does the main character, Lord Berosty, do?
(a) Lord Berosty asks the Weaver Odren how many children he will have.
(b) Lord Berosty requests a Foretelling of the Weaver Odren as to what day he will die.
(c) Lord Berosty requests a Foretelling of the Weaver Odren as to what day his kemmering will die.
(d) Lord Berosty asks the Weaver Odren if he will ever get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Genly the morning following the dinner with which Chapter 8 ends?

2. Who wants to bring the ship to Orgota?

3. At one point, Genly finds himself alone in the dormitory with a dying inmate named Asra. What does Genly tell Asra about he people on his (Genly's) planet?

4. Do Gethenians become pregnant as males, or as females?

5. By the end of Chapter 16, what has happened to Estraven?

(see the answer key)

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