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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the wall for?
(a) It reduces radiation
(b) It keeps the aliens quarratined
(c) It separates the rich from the poor
(d) It stops viscious sea creatures from entering

2. For what does Shevek ask the scientists?
(a) Some toilet paper
(b) A book about Urras
(c) A pen
(d) A complilation CD of Urras's best music

3. What is Shevek's mother's name?
(a) Tirin
(b) Rulag
(c) Tracy
(d) Shelia

4. What do the engineers say Shevek can help make possible?
(a) Peace
(b) Anarchy
(c) Speed of light
(d) Atheism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dr. Kimoe throw Shevek's pajamas in the trash?

2. What kind of poor people does Shevek say he sees while driving about?

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

4. Why does the second officer not trust Shevek?

5. What is different about the water taps in Shevek's room?

(see the answer key)

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