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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is located at Capital Square?
(a) The offices of all the main newspapers
(b) The President's house
(c) The government offices
(d) The main television headquarters

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

3. To where does Takver tell Shevek she and their children will move?
(a) To Shevek's parents house
(b) Earth
(c) A safe house
(d) A place where no one knows them

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

5. Why does Shevek think that they have fewer choices?
(a) Society is becoming more bureaucratic
(b) Shops and schools are closing down
(c) Authorities are oppressing new ideas
(d) Society is encouraging violence

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

7. What does Rulag say when Shevek brings up the possibility of an Anarresti visiting Urras?
(a) Such a person would be unable to return
(b) Such a person for fall in love with Urras's consumerism.
(c) Such a person would be killed
(d) Such a person put the whole world in danger

8. What does Shevek say the change in society is going against?
(a) The people's basic human rights
(b) The constitution
(c) The Odonian ethic of decentralization
(d) His own beliefs

9. Why does Rulag think the Syndicate of Initiative is not a good idea?
(a) Shevek could get hurt
(b) It is the first step towards an Urrasti invasion
(c) The Urrasti will want to put her on trial for crimes
(d) It will create friction between the two worlds

10. What does Takver convince Shevek to do to get his paper published?
(a) Let Sabul put his name to it
(b) Reword it
(c) Bribe the authorities
(d) Sleep with Sabul

11. What name do Takver and Shevek give their daughter?
(a) Daisy
(b) Sadik
(c) Pae
(d) Takver

12. On what country in Urras is a revolution taking place?
(a) Thu
(b) Nio Esseia
(c) Abbeney
(d) Benbili

13. Of what group is Tuio Maedda a member?
(a) The Odonian independent army
(b) The Odonian freedom fighters
(c) The Anarres social group
(d) The quasi-Odonian resistance group

14. Where is Oiie's family located?
(a) Nio Esseia
(b) Terra
(c) Thu
(d) Losti

15. What are Shevek and his friends celebrating?
(a) Independence Day
(b) Insurrection Day
(c) Christmas Day
(d) Shevek's birthday

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the principle of instantaneous communication allow people to do?

2. Why does Keng say Urras is a paradise?

3. What does Shevek think he will achieve by going to Urras?

4. Who does Efor take Shevek to meet?

5. Why is Shevek surprised at the poor living conditions he sees in Nio Esseia?

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