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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chifoilisk tell Shevek?
(a) Shevek is getting too big for his boots
(b) He is the leader of the working class revolution
(c) The other scientists will use him for their own gain.
(d) The other scientists are plotting to kill him

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

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

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

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

7. How is the city different to other cities in which Shevek has lived?
(a) It is located in the middle of a green plain
(b) It has no women
(c) It is an underground city
(d) It has has no trees

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

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

10. What does Bedap think the Anarres power structure is doing?
(a) Suppressing new ideas
(b) Killing people's passion for life
(c) Plotting war against Urras
(d) Making it impossible to live in freedom

11. From what country is Chifoilisk?
(a) Abbeney
(b) Thu
(c) Anarres
(d) Terra

12. What is different about the water taps in Shevek's room?
(a) They run constantly
(b) They don't work
(c) They play a tune when water comes out.
(d) They supply beer.

13. What does Shedek wake up with on his first day in Urras?
(a) The flu
(b) A hangover
(c) A dog
(d) An allergy attack

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Rulag been offered a post?

2. Who does his nurse turn out to be?

3. What does Desar's visit make Sabul realize?

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

5. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?

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