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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the engineers say Shevek can help make possible?
(a) Atheism
(b) Speed of light
(c) Peace
(d) Anarchy

2. What do Shevek and his friends build?
(a) A lab
(b) A car
(c) A prison
(d) A house

3. In what does Chifoilisk say the Urras scientists are particularly interested?
(a) Maintaining their control over the masses
(b) Developing nucler weapons
(c) Shevek's General Temporal Theory
(d) Secrets about Anarres

4. Who is waiting for Shevek when he arrives in Urras?
(a) The Urras President
(b) Nobody
(c) The Urras King
(d) A crowd of people including journalist and photographers

5. Which friend's conversation does Shevek recall?
(a) Mitis
(b) Tirrin
(c) Kadagv
(d) Dr. Kimoe

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the scientists think Shevek is looking for when he asks where all the women are?

2. What does Shevek decide the Anarres settlers did?

3. Who does Shevek thinks he sees on his way back to his room?

4. How does Shevek shock his new friends?

5. Which illness does Shevek contract?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Shevek discoverd at the Terran Embassy?

2. How does Shevek reflect the values on Anarres?

3. Why does Shevek feel anger towards his mother when he meets her?

4. In what way is Vea's argument similar to Bedap's?

5. In what ways does Shevek feel isolated?

6. In what does time again become an important factor at the end of the chapter?

7. What does the image of the wall symbolize in this chapter?

8. Why have the two societies cut themselves off from each other?

9. How is Shevek forced to reevaluate his concept of time?

10. In what way do Shevek and Takver deal differently with the drought?

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