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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Homecoming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Getheren wind up after he leaves Karhide?
(a) The Hearth of Shath.
(b) The Pering Ice.
(c) The Gobrin Ice.
(d) Orgoreyn.

2. What is Edondurath's house made from?
(a) Sticks and hay.
(b) The corpses of the others he had killed.
(c) Snow and ice.
(d) Bricks.

3. When Genly and Estraven come out of Tarrenpeth Forest, a few days into their journey, what does Estraven use his previously-acquired hunting skills to trap?
(a) Pesthry, a fox-like herbivore.
(b) Pesthry, a fox-like omnivore.
(c) Pesthry, a fox-like carnivore.
(d) Pesthry, a type of game bird.

4. What does Lord Berosty do after receiving his Foretelling?
(a) He returns to one of his family domains and locks himself in the Hearth-Tower for ten months.
(b) He decides to live life to the fullest and starts living like a daredevil.
(c) He kills his kemmering.
(d) He commits suicide immediately.

5. What is the name of the Investigator who documents Gethenians' androgyny?
(a) Ong Tot Oppong.
(b) Tot Ong Oppong.
(c) Oppong Ong Tot.
(d) Oppong Tot Ong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it so monumental that Estraven and Stokven swore kemmering to each other?

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

3. What is the significance of the title of Chapter 4, "The Nineteenth Day?"

4. Why does Genly wind up on a communal farm?

5. What is the Foretellers' answer to the question that Genly asks them?

(see the answer key)

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