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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Shevek's arrival such an important occasion?
(a) It is the first time in 200 years someone from Anarranes has visited Urras
(b) He has promised find a cure for a deadly disease.
(c) His arrival was prophecised.
(d) His father was once a Urras leader

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

6. What does Mitis tell Shedek to do while in Abbeny?
(a) Live life
(b) Keep free
(c) Study hard
(d) Watch out for fast women

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

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

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

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

11. What is the name of Shevek's mother?
(a) Rulag
(b) Daisy
(c) Mara
(d) Helena

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

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

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

15. Why does the second officer not trust Shevek?
(a) Shevek is a homosexual
(b) Shevek believes in anarchy and atheism
(c) Shevek believes in equality
(d) Shevek is a bisexual

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed during the rioting at the port?

2. Where does Shevek have to go to study?

3. For how long is Kadagv imprisoned?

4. From which world is the language of Lotic?

5. What kind of people normally have to spend time on the Segvina Island?

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