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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who set China's Cultural Revolution into place?
(a) President Xi Jinping.
(b) Chairman Mao Zedong.
(c) Emperor Youchao.
(d) Emperor Fuxi.

2. When does Mike Evans say the Trisolarans are due to arrive on Earth in Chapter 28, "The Second Red Coast Base"?
(a) In 350 years.
(b) In 450 years.
(c) In 230 years.
(d) In 125 years.

3. When did the name "three-body problem" begin to be commonly used?
(a) THe 1820s.
(b) The 1620s.
(c) The 1740s.
(d) The 1550s.

4. What do the second and third suns appear to be from a distance in the Three Body game in Chapter 15, "Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day"?
(a) Vast planets.
(b) Moons.
(c) Shooting stars.
(d) Gaseous bodies.

5. On what date does Ye Wenjie confess to having killed two people in the document from Chapter 25, "The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining"?
(a) January 12, 1978.
(b) March 16, 1975.
(c) July 23, 1982.
(d) October 21, 1979.

6. When did Leonardo da Vinci live?
(a) 540-500 BC.
(b) 1564-1642.
(c) 1624-1700.
(d) 1452-1519.

7. How many stable configurations has Wei Cheng's algorithm uncovered for the three bodies, according to the narrative in Chapter 16, "The Three Body Problem"?
(a) More than 250.
(b) More than 100.
(c) More than 200.
(d) More than 150.

8. What model did Copernicus present of the universe?
(a) A lunocentric model.
(b) A omniscient model.
(c) A heliocentric model.
(d) A geocentric model.

9. Wei Cheng reveals that his research on the three-body problem is similar to what method in Chapter 16, "The Three Body Problem"?
(a) The Monte Carlo Method.
(b) The Einstein Method.
(c) The Turgensy Method.
(d) The Prediction Method.

10. Who is the organizer for the meeting of the Three Body players in Chapter 18, "Meet-Up"?
(a) Xu Bingbing.
(b) Pan Han.
(c) Lei Dafeng.
(d) Cheng Lihua.

11. When do the individuals who killed Ye Wenjie's father say their idealism faded in Chapter 26, "No One Repents"?
(a) When they met American ambassadors.
(b) When they were sent to the city.
(c) When they were sent to the countryside.
(d) When they learned about nanotechnology research.

12. What warning is repeated several times in the first message that Ye Wenjie receives from an extraterrestrial in Chapter 23, "Red Coast VI"?
(a) "Send help!"
(b) "Do not answer!"
(c) "Prepare for war!"
(d) "Reply immediately!"

13. Where was Copernicus born?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Royal Prussia.
(c) France.
(d) Ukraine.

14. When did Galileo live?
(a) 1602-1659.
(b) 1564-1642.
(c) 1624-1700.
(d) 1711-1777.

15. What causes the Mount Wilson Observatory to have more natural steady air than any location in North America?
(a) A dead zone for radio signals.
(b) A natural wind coverage.
(c) An inversion layer that traps smog.
(d) A light refractor around its surface.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the soldiers that set upon the meeting of the Three Body players in Chapter 24, "Rebellion"?

2. During what time period has Wang Miao arrived when he plays the Three Body game in the beginning of Chapter 15, "Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day"?

3. What is the gate computing system named in Chapter 17, "Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy"?

4. Who is Shen Yufei's husband?

5. For how many years does the narrator describe Ye Wenjie continuing her work peacefully in the beginning of Chapter 23, "Red Coast VI"?

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