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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter ask Shevek to do?
(a) Go back to Arranes
(b) Kill the Urras leader
(c) Join the Odonian rebels
(d) Send them his General Temporal theory

2. What do Shevek and his friend show concern for on Insurrection Day?
(a) A working class revolution
(b) The prospect of war
(c) A new law that stops people talking about Urras
(d) That it has not rained for so long

3. What time of year does Takver give birth to her daughter?
(a) Spring
(b) Autumn
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

4. What does Shevek do while waiting for Takver to finish her posting?
(a) Watches films
(b) Spends time with Sadik
(c) Begins to organize a revolution
(d) Writes a scientific paper

5. Where do the Anarresti ancestors come from?
(a) Pluto
(b) Earth
(c) Urras
(d) Terra

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the principle of instantaneous communication allow people to do?

2. How long does Shevek shut himself in his room?

3. Whose grave does Shevek visit?

4. From which world is the language of Lotic?

5. Why does Shevek want to give his theory to the Terrans?

(see the answer key)

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