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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter ask Shevek to do?
(a) Go back to Arranes
(b) Kill the Urras leader
(c) Send them his General Temporal theory
(d) Join the Odonian rebels

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

3. With what culture is Keng associated?
(a) The Anarestis
(b) The Hainish
(c) The Urrastis
(d) The Terrans

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

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

6. What is the name of Shevak's partner?
(a) Tekvar
(b) Tirin
(c) Rulag
(d) Pae

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

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

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

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

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

12. What do Shevek and the council think Anarres is compared to Urras?
(a) A democracy
(b) A dystopia
(c) A Utopia
(d) A free country

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the resistance group hold a rally?

2. What manuscript does Shevek complete during Takver's pregnancy?

3. What effect does Shevek's opinions have on his family?

4. Why did Tirin go mad?

5. What disaster happens when Shevek arrives in Chakar?

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