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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Shevek decide the Anarres settlers did?
(a) Created turmoil
(b) Created a dystopia
(c) Abandoned their world
(d) Found peace

3. What does Shevek spend his free time doing?
(a) Playing soccer
(b) Dating women
(c) Writing papers
(d) Playing golf

4. Who tends to Shevek while he is aboard the ship?
(a) Dr. Kimoe
(b) The Ship's captain
(c) Dr Terra
(d) Terak

5. Which city is the center of life and science on Anarres?
(a) Haines
(b) Abbeney
(c) Urras
(d) Terra

6. What was Odo during his lifetime?
(a) A scientist
(b) An engineer
(c) A philosopher
(d) A doctor

7. What is the name given to Urras culture?
(a) Urranasti
(b) Urrasti
(c) Urrantiki
(d) Urranese

8. With whom does Shedak copulate?
(a) Beshan
(b) Mitis
(c) Nobody
(d) Kadagv

9. Which area of science do the scientists debate?
(a) Politics
(b) Physics
(c) Chemistry
(d) Biology

10. Whose grave does Shevek visit?
(a) Odo's
(b) Patek's
(c) Sulpher's
(d) Lionel's

11. Why does Sabul discourage Shevek from sending another paper to Dr. Atro?
(a) He does not agree with Shevek's ideas
(b) He thinks Shevek is becoming too big headed
(c) It does not relate to his own area of research
(d) Dr. Atro is to busy

12. Which of the following does Shevek have in Urras that he does not have at home?
(a) His own room
(b) A servant
(c) A shower
(d) A lover

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

14. Why does the second officer not trust Shevek?
(a) Shevek is a bisexual
(b) Shevek is a homosexual
(c) Shevek believes in equality
(d) Shevek believes in anarchy and atheism

15. Who stops Shevek on his way out from the dining hall?
(a) Dr. Sabul
(b) Dr. Chifoilisk
(c) Pae
(d) Hilda

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people normally have to spend time on the Segvina Island?

2. What does Chifoilisk tell Shevek?

3. To where is Shevek traveling?

4. What do the engineers say Shevek can help make possible?

5. Why is Shevek surprised that the scientists on Anarres correspond with Urrasti scientists?

(see the answer keys)

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