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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 20, who is the first off the Star Ship after it lands?
(a) Genly's wife.
(b) Genly's immediate supervisor.
(c) A woman named Heo Lang Hew.
(d) A woman named Lang Heo Hew.

2. What does Genly do in Chapter 19 that he would not allow himself to do in Chapter 16?
(a) Genly stops and asks for directions.
(b) Genly has sex with Estraven.
(c) Genly allows himself to trust Estraven.
(d) Genly breaks down and cries.

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

4. What does the sight of the Esherhoth Crags do for Estraven and Genly?
(a) It discourages them.
(b) It encourages them.
(c) It frightens them.
(d) It causes them to realize they went the wrong way.

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

6. 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.

7. How long ago did the High Priest compose the sayings in Chapter 12?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) 600 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 900 years.

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

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

10. By the end of Chapter 16, what has happened to Estraven?
(a) He has gone into kemmer.
(b) He has lost all patience with Genly.
(c) He is starving himself.
(d) He has gone into dothe.

11. What does Estraven do with the letter he writes to his son, and why?
(a) He sends it because he misses his son.
(b) He doesn't send it because it would condemn his son.
(c) He hand delivers it to his son.
(d) He doesn't send it because he disowned his son.

12. What happens in Orgoreyn after Agraven confronts the Commensals about what they did to Genly?
(a) The Commensals send assassins to kill Agraven and Tibe is appointed king.
(b) Many Commensals are replaced, Obsle's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.
(c) Many Commensals are replaced, Yegey's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.
(d) Many Commensals are replaced, Faxe takes control, and Tibe is executed.

13. After Genly comes to live in Mishnory, what does Estraven find strange about how the local government is handling the presence of a First Mobile in their town?
(a) He finds it strange that Genly is being talked about in the media as if he were a celebrity.
(b) He finds it strange that his association with Genly hasn't cost him his job.
(c) He finds it strange that Tibe's men didn't somehow follow Genly to Mishnory.
(d) He finds it strange that all information pertaining to Genly is censored by the Sarf.

14. Did Genly accomplish, in the end, his mission to incorporate Winter into the Ekumen, according to Chapter 20?
(a) No.
(b) Negotiations were still ongoing as of the end of the book. We will never know.
(c) Yes.
(d) It is unclear whether or not he did.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around the time of the earthquake, what does Estraven notice that Genly is repressing himself from doing?

2. As Chapter 14 opens, what realization has Estraven come to?

3. How does Estraven acquire the initial supplies and food for the winter journey?

4. During the blizzard, what Earth game does Genly teach Estraven to play?

5. Why, after Estraven's successful pesthry hunt, does it become more difficult for him and Genly to travel for the next several days?

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