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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Shevek fighting?
(a) To end oppression
(b) An end to Anarres' isolation
(c) Peace
(d) To end poverty

2. Who does Shevek say used him for their own advancement?
(a) The Arranes government
(b) The Odions
(c) The Urras government
(d) The Loti

3. Where does Sadik stay?
(a) In a nursery
(b) In a hospital
(c) In a children's dormitory
(d) In a friend's apartment

4. Where does Efor take Shevek?
(a) His house
(b) The slum section of Thu
(c) The slum section of Nio Esseia
(d) His church

5. Who does Shevek meet at the Terran embassy?
(a) Denny
(b) Rulag
(c) Keng
(d) Sabul

6. Who has allowed the Terrans the freedom to visit other planets?
(a) Shevek
(b) The urrastis
(c) The Anarrestis
(d) The Hainish

7. Why does Keng say Urras is a paradise?
(a) Because they allow you to become rich
(b) Because the weather is always nice
(c) Because there is no poverty
(d) Because her own society has ruined its planet

8. What does insurrection day commemorate?
(a) Their president's birthday
(b) The first Odonian uprising on Urras
(c) Anarres's independence from Urras
(d) The founding of the Anarres constitution

9. Which group of people turn on Shevek when he goes to talk to them about his views?
(a) Doctors
(b) Scientists
(c) Students
(d) Old age pensioners

10. Why did Tirin go mad?
(a) Because his family died in the drought
(b) Because his play was censored
(c) Because he broke up from his wife
(d) Because his daughter passed away

11. Why is Shevek surprised at the poor living conditions he sees in Nio Esseia?
(a) He had never seen poverty
(b) It is a step away from an area of prosperity
(c) He was told there was no poverty in the country
(d) He had previously thought it was a city of wealth

12. Where do the rebels smuggle Shevek?
(a) Abbeny
(b) Thu
(c) The Terran Embassy
(d) The Hainish embassy

13. What time of year does Takver give birth to her daughter?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Autumn
(d) Spring

14. To where does Shevek travel to meet Takver?
(a) Terra
(b) Abbeney
(c) Chakar
(d) Thu

15. Why does Shevek try to strike up a conversation with his servant?
(a) He wants to practise his Urrasti
(b) He needs money
(c) He wants to make some genuine friends
(d) He wants to talk to a poor person

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Takver convince Shevek to do to get his paper published?

2. What did seeing Tirin make Shevek realize?

3. Where is Oiie's family located?

4. Where do the resistance group hold a rally?

5. Why does Keng believe her planet will never be like Anarres

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