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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What planet is Shevek from?
(a) Earth
(b) Urras
(c) Anarranes
(d) Terra

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

3. Who is waiting for Shevek when he arrives in Urras?
(a) Nobody
(b) A crowd of people including journalist and photographers
(c) The Urras King
(d) The Urras President

4. What does Dr. Atro give Shevek as a present?
(a) A rare coin
(b) A gold statue
(c) A bracelet
(d) A rare science book

5. What surrounds the Anarranes port?
(a) A wall
(b) Guards
(c) A boardwalk
(d) Barbwire

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Shevek dream?

2. What is the name given to Urras culture?

3. Why does Shevek have to keep the information he will learn secret?

4. What is Shevek's profession?

5. Which illness does Shevek contract?

(see the answer key)

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