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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character writes the introduction to Shevek's paper?
(a) Shevek
(b) Dr. Atro
(c) Sabul
(d) Rulag

3. What best describes Shevek's students?
(a) Male, well-taught and obsessed with getting high marks
(b) Female, flirtatious and very attractive
(c) Male, materialistic and angry
(d) Male, lazy and disobedient

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed during the rioting at the port?

2. What are different about the pajamas the ship provides Shevek?

3. Who does Shevek thinks he resembles when he puts on his clothes?

4. How is the city different to other cities in which Shevek has lived?

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

(see the answer key)

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