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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shevek name the street where he does his shopping?
(a) Elm Street
(b) Nightmare Street
(c) Buy and Sell Street
(d) Rich Street

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

3. Who is killed during the rioting at the port?
(a) A young boy
(b) Shevek's wife
(c) A guard
(d) A young girl

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

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

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

7. How do Shevek and Bedap put an end to their arguing?
(a) They take drugs
(b) They play a game of dominoes
(c) They embark on a sexual relationship
(d) They go to the pub

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

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

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

11. For how long is Kadagv imprisoned?
(a) 30 hours
(b) 2 weeks
(c) 24 hours
(d) 1 month

12. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?
(a) Palat
(b) Kadagv
(c) Shevek
(d) Rulag

13. Of which doctor does Shevek write a critique?
(a) Dr. Kildaire
(b) Dr. Atro
(c) Dr. Patak
(d) Dr. Sabul

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

15. What does Dr.Kimoe give Shevek?
(a) Diabetic chocolate
(b) Vaccinations
(c) Sleeping pills
(d) Paracetamals

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Shevek have to go to study?

2. For what does Shevek ask the scientists?

3. What does Bedap think the Anarres power structure is doing?

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

5. What does Mitis tell Shedek to do while in Abbeny?

(see the answer keys)

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