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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 scientists think Shevek is looking for when he asks where all the women are?
(a) A sexual partner
(b) A good conversation
(c) A cook
(d) A mother figure

2. Why does Shevek have to keep the information he will learn secret?
(a) The masses could revolt
(b) If it fell into the wrong hands someone could misuse it.
(c) The masses will disapprove of their correspondence with Urras
(d) It could start a war between Urras and Anarres

3. Who takes Shevek shopping for clothes?
(a) Pae
(b) Ieu Eun
(c) Tirrin
(d) Kabul

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

5. What does Shevek do after leaving the infirmary?
(a) Works twice as hard
(b) Secures a position on Urras
(c) Socialize
(d) Gets married

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Bedap say has spent time on Segvina Island Asylum?

2. What does Shevek find does not exist in Urras to the degree he thought it did?

3. To where is Shevek traveling?

4. Who does his nurse turn out to be?

5. How do the professors at the school stop themselves from being distracted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shevek hope to achieve with his printing syndicate?

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

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

4. What does Kvetur's imprisonment symbolize?

5. In what way has Anarres become resemble more a dystopia than utopia?

6. In what way does Efor stoke Shevek's sense of failure?

7. What has Shevek learned about from going to Urras?

8. How does Shevek reflect the values on Anarres?

9. In what ways does Shevek begin to feel more connected to the Urrasti people?

10. Why do you think the citizens of Anarres do not climb the wall?

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