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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the place where Estraven is granted asylum, to which he must travel?
(a) The Township of Mishnory.
(b) South Mishnory.
(c) Orgoreyn.
(d) Therem Harth.

2. What significance does the Sarf have for Genly?
(a) Gaum, the head of the Sarf, accepts Genly--this means he is safe from arrest.
(b) Gaum, the head of the Sarf, thinks Genly is a fake--this puts him in danger of arrest.
(c) Slose, the head of the Sarf, thinks Genly is a fake--this puts him in danger of arrest.
(d) Genly is an ambassador; therefore, the Sarf has no significance for him because of his political immunity.

3. What is the price Genly is charged for an audience with the Foretellers?
(a) One ruby.
(b) As a First Mobile, he isn't charged anything.
(c) Three rubies.
(d) Two rubies.

4. What is the advice that Estraven gives Genly during his visit to Genly's apartment in Mishnory?
(a) He tells Genly to encourage Orgoreyn to join the Ekumen.
(b) He tells Genly that he is being used as a tool and that it will harm him if he isn't careful.
(c) He tells Genly that Orgoreyn is a much better place from which to achieve his mission.
(d) He tells Genly to leave Orgoreyn as soon as possible because his life is in danger.

5. Who is waiting for Estraven at the city gate when he arrives in Kuseben?
(a) His two sons.
(b) Genly Ai.
(c) Tibe.
(d) Ashe, his former kemmering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Investigator who documents Gethenians' androgyny?

2. What is the name of Lord Berosty's kemmering?

3. Where does the second Estraven in Chapter 9 (Estraven II) wind up after his failed hunting trip?

4. How long does Genly's journey to Rer, which is described in Chapter 5, take?

5. Where does Genly live during the month of Kus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme is brought out in Chapter 11, and how is it brought out?

2. What is the nature of the relationship between Estraven and Tibe, and why?

3. How does betrayal figure in Chapter 9?

4. When Getheren 'took back his name and shadow,' what effect did it have on Shath and why?

5. What behavior exhibited by Genly in chapter 19 when he goes into town to make a transmission to the Star Ship, shows that he has grown in his ability to be patient?

6. What do High Priest Tuhulme's comments about Yomesh being a one-sided religion mean?

7. Why does darkness follow each child born to Edondurath and his partner?

8. What happens to a pregnant Gethenian's body?

9. What is kemmering?

10. Why does the Lord of Estre decide to raise the baby that was given to the warder as a son of the hearth?

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