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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Shevek get stuck in a small town?
(a) Urras have invaded Abbeney
(b) Shevek falls ill
(c) There is a wreck on the train line
(d) There is a storm

2. Why did Tirin have to spend time in the asylum?
(a) He wrote a play about Urasti coming to Anarres
(b) He made a documentary about Urras
(c) He critized the Anarres president
(d) He tried to escape to Urras

3. What do the scientists think Shevek is looking for when he asks where all the women are?
(a) A good conversation
(b) A mother figure
(c) A sexual partner
(d) A cook

4. How does Shevek shock his new friends?
(a) By asking to date one of their sisters
(b) By telling them his planet has female scientists
(c) By looking them in the eye
(d) By criticizing their president

5. What does Palat tell the women at the nursery?
(a) That he is terminally ill
(b) That he is in love with them all
(c) That Shevek has to stay full-time
(d) That he is leaving his family

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Shevek have in Urras that he does not have at home?

2. Why does Shevek find shopping such as awful experience?

3. How do the professors at the school stop themselves from being distracted?

4. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?

5. Who denies Shevek his request to teach his theories?

(see the answer key)

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