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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Estraven the Traitor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Investigator's field notes say about being a First Mobile on Winter?
(a) First Mobiles must be self-assured, because their pride will be tested.
(b) First Mobiles must have low self-esteem, because anything else is seen as arrogance.
(c) No First Mobile has ever returned from Winter alive.
(d) First Mobiles are accepted as natives.

2. Who finds Getheren on the ninth day after he leaves his homeland?
(a) No one; he dies of exposure as a result.
(b) Hode.
(c) The posse sent by the Lord of Hearth.
(d) The people of Orhoch Hearth.

3. How does Genly Ai spend the summer?
(a) Genly spends the summer in Passerer, trying o avert war with Siuwensin.
(b) Genly spends the summer traveling, observing, and listening.
(c) Genly spends the summer in Mishnory, working in the ice-house with Estraven.
(d) Genly spends the summer in Karhide, hiding from Tibe.

4. What is the period of time during which a Gethenian is sexually inactive called?
(a) Menopause.
(b) Frigidity.
(c) Kemmer.
(d) Somer.

5. What is the mortar the king applies to the Arch's keystone made of?
(a) Ground animal bones mixed with animal blood.
(b) Cement.
(c) Ground human bones mixed with human blood.
(d) Ground animal bones mixed with human blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story in Chapter 2 take place?

2. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?

3. What is the origin of the story told in Chapter 4?

4. What is the purpose of the parade upon which Chapter 1 opens?

5. What is the name of Karhide's king?

(see the answer key)

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