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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people normally have to spend time on the Segvina Island?
(a) Corrupt politicians
(b) Mentally ill people
(c) Scientists
(d) Murderers and rapists

2. What did Tirrin contend with Shevek about Urras?
(a) That is was an ugly place
(b) That it was poor
(c) That they were being withheld information
(d) That no one lived there

3. What does Palat tell the women at the nursery?
(a) That he is terminally ill
(b) That Shevek has to stay full-time
(c) That he is leaving his family
(d) That he is in love with them all

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

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

6. What do Shevek and his friends build?
(a) A prison
(b) A car
(c) A lab
(d) A house

7. What is the wall for?
(a) It reduces radiation
(b) It stops viscious sea creatures from entering
(c) It separates the rich from the poor
(d) It keeps the aliens quarratined

8. Who denies Shevek his request to teach his theories?
(a) The Physics Federation
(b) Urras University
(c) The Anarres Science Institute
(d) Anarres University

9. What is the name of Shevek's teacher?
(a) Gvarab
(b) Rulag
(c) Tirrin
(d) Sabul

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

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

12. Who does Shevek thinks he sees on his way back to his room?
(a) His father
(b) Tirrin
(c) The dark-haired girl from his going away party
(d) His mother

13. What is Shevek's profession?
(a) Scientist
(b) Doctor
(c) Nurse
(d) Writer

14. Who takes Shevek shopping for clothes?
(a) Pae
(b) Tirrin
(c) Ieu Eun
(d) Kabul

15. What hits Shevak on the shoulder?
(a) A rock
(b) An egg
(c) A toy car
(d) An iron rod

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chifoilisk tell Shevek?

2. From what country is Chifoilisk?

3. How long is the journey to Urras?

4. What planet is Shevek from?

5. How does Shevek shock his new friends?

(see the answer keys)

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