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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Estraven's social status change to after he receives the money from Genly?
(a) Unit, meaning he can't support himself.
(b) Dependent, meaning he is able to support himself.
(c) Dependent, meaning he can't support himself.
(d) Unit, meaning he is able to support himself.

2. What type of prisoner is Genly?
(a) Political prisoner.
(b) Prisoner of conscience.
(c) Prisoner of love.
(d) Prisoner of war.

3. What role does Estraven tell Genly that King Argaven will be able to play with Orgota once he receives word of Genly's capture?
(a) Kemmer.
(b) Foreteller.
(c) First Mobile.
(d) Shifgrethor.

4. On what day of their trip do Genly and Estraven eventually arrive in Karhide?
(a) The 81st day.
(b) The 100th day.
(c) The 18th day.
(d) The 51st day.

5. What happens to Genly shortly after Estraven reappears in Chapter 11 to warn him?
(a) He is arrested and taken to Kundershaden Prison.
(b) He is arrested and deported to Karhide.
(c) He is arrested and taken to the Pulefen Commensality Farm.
(d) He is arrested and sentenced to death.

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

7. What happens during Estraven and Genly's descent of Mount Dremegole?
(a) Genly twists his ankle.
(b) Estraven slips on a patch of ice.
(c) A wheel gets stuck and the axle bends.
(d) The sledge tips and they lose sixty pounds of food.

8. What happens to Genly during the first week of his arrest?
(a) He is placed on trial.
(b) He is hit on by an Orgota in kemmer.
(c) He is drugged and interrogated.
(d) His passport is returned to him and he is released.

9. According to the Orgota creation myth, how many men were created?
(a) 39.
(b) 42.
(c) 93.
(d) 2, one male and one female.

10. How does Estraven acquire the initial supplies and food for the winter journey?
(a) He steals them in Turuf.
(b) He acquires them before freeing Genly and hides them for later access.
(c) He goes hunting.
(d) He buys them in Turuf.

11. How many of the sleepers did Edondurath kill after he woke up?
(a) 36.
(b) 90.
(c) 63.
(d) None; he was the only one.

12. What is the Karhidish religion's viewpoint on good and evil?
(a) There is neither good nor evil.
(b) There is only evil; there is no good.
(c) Both good and evil exist.
(d) There is only good; there is no evil.

13. After Estraven receives money from Genly, where does he find work?
(a) Estraven finds work with the government.
(b) Estraven takes a job in a plastics factory.
(c) Estraven goes back to work in the icehouse, packing fish.
(d) Estraven doesn't have a job.

14. According to the Orgota creation myth, what will happen to the world at its end?
(a) The sun will devour itself and the planet will turn to a dead rock.
(b) The sun will devour itself, shadow will eat light, and there will once again be nothing but darkness and ice.
(c) An asteroid will hit the planet and blow it up.
(d) The sun will explode and melt all the ice.

15. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?
(a) The Weaver Orden.
(b) Esvans Harth ir rem Estraven, Estraven's father, and Arek, Estraven's older brother.
(c) Ashe, Estraven's former kemmering.
(d) Heo Lang Hew.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Estraven succeed in freeing Genly from his captivity?

2. How does Estraven blackmail Shusgis?

3. Who agrees to take a message on Estraven's behalf to King Argaven regarding what has happened to Genly Ai?

4. What does Genly do in Chapter 19 that he would not allow himself to do in Chapter 16?

5. As of the beginning of Chapter 18, for how many days had Genly and Estraven been traveling?

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