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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?
(a) Shevek
(b) Rulag
(c) Kadagv
(d) Palat

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

3. What are different about the pajamas the ship provides Shevek?
(a) They are invisible
(b) They are made of sheep's wool
(c) They have electric heating
(d) They are disposable

4. Which city is the center of life and science on Anarres?
(a) Terra
(b) Abbeney
(c) Haines
(d) Urras

5. Why is Shevek surprised that the scientists on Anarres correspond with Urrasti scientists?
(a) He thought the scientists hated each other
(b) He thought they were both developing theories to defeat the other in war.
(c) He thought it was aginst the laws of both planets
(d) He did not think the Urrasti's were capable of interacting with free people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palat give Shevek on his return?

2. What planet is Shevek from?

3. What does Dr.Kimoe give Shevek?

4. What does Shevek find does not exist in Urras to the degree he thought it did?

5. What surrounds the Anarranes port?

(see the answer key)

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