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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Rulag abandon Shevek as a baby?
(a) She had to work
(b) She was not ready for motherhood
(c) His father was abusive
(d) She fell in love with another man

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

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

5. What does Palat give Shevek on his return?
(a) A football
(b) A Math book
(c) A Charles Dickens novel
(d) A book of spells

6. Why does Sabul become angry with Shevek?
(a) He sends his paper to Dr. Atro
(b) He refuses to help him with his work
(c) He has given away secrets
(d) Because he proposes to publish his paper on Anarres

7. What image does Shevek again have to confront when his mother leaves?
(a) Shallow water
(b) A ship
(c) A wall
(d) His self as a child

8. To whom does Mitis send Shedek's paper?
(a) Beshan
(b) The President
(c) The police
(d) Sabul

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

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

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

12. Who does Shevek thinks he resembles when he puts on his clothes?
(a) His mother
(b) His brother
(c) His uncle
(d) His father

13. What planet is Shevek from?
(a) Anarranes
(b) Terra
(c) Earth
(d) Urras

14. What are Shevek and his friends most interested in about Urras?
(a) Its mathematic formulas
(b) Its prisons
(c) Its political system
(d) Its women

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shevek spend his free time doing?

2. What do Shevek and his friends build?

3. What is Shevek's mother's name?

4. With whom does Shedak copulate?

5. Why does the second officer not trust Shevek?

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