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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, To the Ice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far is Rer from Karhide?
(a) 11 miles.
(b) 1,100 miles.
(c) 11,000 miles.
(d) 110 miles.

2. What important concept is brought up again in Chapter 10?
(a) Honesty and genuineness.
(b) Death and life.
(c) Facade and veneer.
(d) Love and betrayal.

3. When Genly and Estraven come out of Tarrenpeth Forest, a few days into their journey, what does Estraven use his previously-acquired hunting skills to trap?
(a) Pesthry, a fox-like omnivore.
(b) Pesthry, a type of game bird.
(c) Pesthry, a fox-like carnivore.
(d) Pesthry, a fox-like herbivore.

4. How long does Genly's journey to Rer, which is described in Chapter 5, take?
(a) Four days.
(b) Four years.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) Four hours.

5. By the end of Chapter 10, what is Genly starting to realize?
(a) He's starting to realize that the secret police, not the King, are running Karhide.
(b) He's starting to realize that his first impressions were wrong and that Karhide is much more advanced and civilized than Orgoreyn.
(c) He's starting to realize that his initial impressions were accurate and that Orgoreyn is much more advanced and civilized than Karhide.
(d) He's starting to realize that something's not quite right; Orgoreyn isn't as it appears.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Estraven finishes calculating the rations for their winter journey, what parameters does he establish?

2. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?

3. Who visits Genly the morning following the dinner with which Chapter 8 ends?

4. How does Genly's lunch with the Commensals differ from his meeting with King Argaven?

5. What does Genly ask the Foretellers?

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