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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shevek accused of when he tells a joke in physics class?
(a) Idiocy
(b) Egoizing
(c) Exposing himself
(d) Bad humor

2. In what does Chifoilisk say the Urras scientists are particularly interested?
(a) Secrets about Anarres
(b) Shevek's General Temporal Theory
(c) Developing nucler weapons
(d) Maintaining their control over the masses

3. From what country is Chifoilisk?
(a) Anarres
(b) Terra
(c) Abbeney
(d) Thu

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

5. What are Shevek and his friends most interested in about Urras?
(a) Its mathematic formulas
(b) Its political system
(c) Its prisons
(d) Its women

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sabul's profession?

2. What was Odo during his lifetime?

3. Which of the following is a scientific theory about which the scientists talk to Shevek?

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

5. What does Mitis tell Shedek to do while in Abbeny?

(see the answer key)

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