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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. Where do the Anarresti ancestors come from?

2. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?

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

4. Who does Shevek thinks he resembles when he puts on his clothes?

5. What does Palat tell the women at the nursery?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Shevek feel isolated?

2. In what way does the demonstration wake up the rebels?

3. What does the man's hand, shot off at the end of the chapter, symbolize to Shevek?

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

5. Why is the return of the character Bedap important?

6. What is Shevek's world like?

7. Why is Anarres the key to Urras?

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

9. How does Shevek now view his own society?

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

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

Discuss Shevek's character.

1) What is his background?

2) What does he look like?

3) What are his motivations and objectives?

4) Why is he so important to the two worlds?

Essay Topic 3

Le Guin often talks negatively about Urras and its materialism. How true do you think Le Guin's negative representation of materialism is? What kind of society does materialism create?

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