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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shevek urge the people to do?
(a) To stop the violence
(b) To go on a hunger strike
(c) To destroy the government offices
(d) Embrace the freedom he has known on Anarres

2. Why is Shevek restricted to campus?
(a) Because he has uncovered a top secret
(b) Because of the revolution
(c) Because he is ill
(d) Because they no longer trust him

3. Who does Efor take Shevek to meet?
(a) Keng
(b) Loell
(c) Frank Davis
(d) Tuio Maedda

4. Why does Shevek think it would of been impossible for them to stay together?
(a) Because of the turmoil created by the drought
(b) Because he is never home anyway
(c) Because it against the law
(d) Because of their constant arguing

5. Why does Shevek want to start his own printing syndicate?
(a) To communicate his theories
(b) To socialize more
(c) To stop censorship
(d) To print propaganda

6. Why does Shevek get stuck in a small town?
(a) There is a storm
(b) Urras have invaded Abbeney
(c) There is a wreck on the train line
(d) Shevek falls ill

7. What has Shevek decided to set up?
(a) A printing syndicate
(b) A homeless shelter
(c) A hospital
(d) A rebel army

8. What did seeing Tirin make Shevek realize?
(a) That he loves Takver
(b) That he has isolated himself for too long
(c) What few choices they have
(d) That he is not crazy

9. What happens in the summer?
(a) Takver and Shevek split up
(b) There is a drought
(c) Shevek is offered a job in Urras
(d) Anarres win the football world cup

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

11. What do Shevek and his friend show concern for on Insurrection Day?
(a) A new law that stops people talking about Urras
(b) The prospect of war
(c) That it has not rained for so long
(d) A working class revolution

12. With whom does Shevek try to strike up a conversation?
(a) Efor
(b) Pae
(c) Oiie
(d) Vea

13. Who tells Shevek he is restricted to campus?
(a) Vea
(b) Efor
(c) Pae
(d) Sabul

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shevek say the change in society is going against?

2. To where does Takver tell Shevek she and their children will move?

3. With whose family does Shevek spend a week?

4. What does Shevek do while waiting for Takver to finish her posting?

5. What is the name of Shevak's partner?

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