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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are different about the pajamas the ship provides Shevek?
(a) They have electric heating
(b) They are invisible
(c) They are made of sheep's wool
(d) They are disposable

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

3. Why did Tirin have to spend time in the asylum?
(a) He wrote a play about Urasti coming to Anarres
(b) He tried to escape to Urras
(c) He made a documentary about Urras
(d) He critized the Anarres president

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

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

6. For which of the doctors does Shedek show admiration?
(a) Dr. Trankle
(b) Dr. Philips
(c) Dr. Kilroy
(d) Dr. Atro

7. Why is Shevek's arrival such an important occasion?
(a) His father was once a Urras leader
(b) It is the first time in 200 years someone from Anarranes has visited Urras
(c) He has promised find a cure for a deadly disease.
(d) His arrival was prophecised.

8. Why does Shevek find shopping such as awful experience?
(a) The crowds are too big
(b) He is disgusted by all the buying and selling
(c) Everyone is rude to him
(d) He cannot find what he wants

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

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

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

12. Where has Rulag been offered a post?
(a) Frankfurt
(b) Abbeney
(c) Urras
(d) Terra

13. Which illness does Shevek contract?
(a) Chicken pox
(b) Pneumonia
(c) The flu
(d) The measles

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Shevek's mother?

2. How do the professors at the school stop themselves from being distracted?

3. What does Dr.Kimoe give Shevek?

4. How long is the journey to Urras?

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

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