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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. Which character writes the introduction to Shevek's paper?
(a) Dr. Atro
(b) Sabul
(c) Rulag
(d) Shevek

2. Which area of science do the scientists debate?
(a) Biology
(b) Chemistry
(c) Politics
(d) Physics

3. What image does Shevek again have to confront when his mother leaves?
(a) His self as a child
(b) A ship
(c) A wall
(d) Shallow water

4. Which city is the center of life and science on Anarres?
(a) Haines
(b) Urras
(c) Terra
(d) Abbeney

5. To where is Shevek traveling?
(a) Urras
(b) Anarranes
(c) Terra
(d) Kimoe

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sabul's profession?

2. What does Bedap think the Anarres power structure is doing?

3. What kind of poor people does Shevek say he sees while driving about?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shevek not see his apparent freedom as a good thing?

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

3. How has Bedap's views changed since Shevek last met him?

4. How does Sabul prove Tirin's theory correct?

5. How does time again become an issue in this chapter?

6. What does Shevek now represent to his world?

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

8. What importance does the phrase "working together" hold for Shevek?

9. Why it is important for Shevek and Takver not to "own each other"?

10. In what does Shevek now feel disorientated?

(see the answer keys)

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