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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what does Shevek dream?
(a) Mathematics
(b) Urras
(c) His teacher
(d) A cornerstone

3. 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

4. What is Sabul's profession?
(a) Writer
(b) Social worker
(c) Engineer
(d) Scientist

5. Why does Dr. Kimoe throw Shevek's pajamas in the trash?
(a) He does not like them
(b) Shevek has soiled them
(c) It costs less than having them cleaned
(d) He wants to provide Shevek with silk pajamas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Shevek and his friends build?

2. Where has Rulag been offered a post?

3. What does Shedek wake up with on his first day in Urras?

4. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?

5. Who tends to Shevek while he is aboard the ship?

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