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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Sabul teach him?

2. Why does Dr. Kimoe throw Shevek's pajamas in the trash?

3. Which character writes the introduction to Shevek's paper?

4. What are Shevek and his friends most interested in about Urras?

5. What is the wall for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is it important the Hainishman leaves his ship to look around Anarres?

6. What line doe Shevek draw between the Urrasti and Anarresti pasts?

7. How does Shevek realize that Tirrin's ideas were right?

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

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

10. How does Vea see Shevek's ideal society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss your thoughts on the following statement: Married couples or people in long-term relationships should live apart so they can achieve their own goals and develop their own life.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Ursula's Le Guin's viewpoint is in the novel? In what ways does she show it?

Essay Topic 3

A major theme in the book is that different people have different ideas and at one point Shevek has an argument with Vea. How do their opinions differ? Why is it important that they come to a compromise?

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