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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. Why does Dr. Kimoe throw Shevek's pajamas in the trash?
(a) He wants to provide Shevek with silk pajamas.
(b) He does not like them
(c) It costs less than having them cleaned
(d) Shevek has soiled them

2. What does Mitis tell Shedek to do while in Abbeny?
(a) Keep free
(b) Study hard
(c) Watch out for fast women
(d) Live life

3. Why does the second officer not trust Shevek?
(a) Shevek believes in equality
(b) Shevek is a homosexual
(c) Shevek believes in anarchy and atheism
(d) Shevek is a bisexual

4. Why is Shevek surprised that the scientists on Anarres correspond with Urrasti scientists?
(a) He did not think the Urrasti's were capable of interacting with free people.
(b) He thought they were both developing theories to defeat the other in war.
(c) He thought the scientists hated each other
(d) He thought it was aginst the laws of both planets

5. Where do the Anarresti ancestors come from?
(a) Urras
(b) Earth
(c) Terra
(d) Pluto

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shevek accused of when he tells a joke in physics class?

2. Why does Shevek find shopping such as awful experience?

3. Which illness does Shevek contract?

4. What is the name of Shevek's mother?

5. Who takes Shevek shopping for clothes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Shevek's world like?

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

3. How does the note in Shevek finds in his pocket change his view on Urras?

4. How does Shevek's trip to the retail district of Nio Esseia poke holes in his belief that Urrasti society is all-providing?

5. Why does Tirin rebel against his society's view of the universe?

6. What is the only way Shevek can achieve his mission?

7. How does seeing Odo's grave and prison give Shevek a better perspective?

8. What do you think the wall means in relation to the contact he has to make with Urras?

9. For what is Shevek really fighting?

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

(see the answer keys)

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