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The Dispossessed Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to Kadagv while he was imprisoned?
(a) He was ill
(b) He hallucinated
(c) He went into a trance
(d) He went insane

3. Who is waiting for Shevek when he arrives in Urras?
(a) The Urras King
(b) The Urras President
(c) Nobody
(d) A crowd of people including journalist and photographers

4. What does Shevek find does not exist in Urras to the degree he thought it did?
(a) Love and understanding
(b) Infidelity
(c) Waste and poverty
(d) Divorce

5. Which character does Bedap say has spent time on Segvina Island Asylum?
(a) Tirin
(b) Patak
(c) Gvarab
(d) Tvorak

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

7. What do the scientists think Shevek is looking for when he asks where all the women are?
(a) A good conversation
(b) A mother figure
(c) A sexual partner
(d) A cook

8. What does Shevek do after leaving the infirmary?
(a) Works twice as hard
(b) Gets married
(c) Secures a position on Urras
(d) Socialize

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

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

11. Which character visits Shevek in the infirmary?
(a) Patak
(b) Desar
(c) Tirrin
(d) Sabul

12. What is Sabul's profession?
(a) Engineer
(b) Writer
(c) Scientist
(d) Social worker

13. How long is the journey to Urras?
(a) A week
(b) 10 days
(c) 12 hours
(d) 5 days

14. What best describes Shevek's students?
(a) Male, well-taught and obsessed with getting high marks
(b) Female, flirtatious and very attractive
(c) Male, lazy and disobedient
(d) Male, materialistic and angry

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shevek name the street where he does his shopping?

2. Which of his old friends does Shevek run into after the death of his teacher?

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

4. What does Shevek spend his free time doing?

5. What language does Sabul teach him?

(see the answer keys)

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