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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, On Time and Darkness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Genly ask the Foretellers?
(a) Will Gethen become a member of the Ekumen of the Known Worlds within five years?
(b) Will Karhide be a member of the Ekumen of the Known Worlds within seven years?
(c) Will Gethen be a member of the Ekumen of the Known Worlds within seven years?
(d) Will Karhide be a member of the Ekumen of the Known Worlds within five years?

2. What is the Foretellers' answer to the question that Genly asks them?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) The question is unanswerable.

3. Before he dies, what does Estraven II do?
(a) He wins the feud with Stok and claims the entire Domain for Estre.
(b) He ends the feud with Stok by giving half the disputed land to the Domain of Stok.
(c) He wins the feud with Stok without any loss of land.
(d) He loses the feud with Stok, and Estre becoms part of the Domain of Stok.

4. Is it possible for a Gethenian to change gender from one period of sexual activity to another?
(a) The book does not specify.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

5. What religion are the Foretellers?
(a) Yomesh.
(b) Karhidish.
(c) Orgota.
(d) Handdarata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the period of time during which a Gethenian is sexually inactive called?

2. If a Gethenian becomes pregnant, how long is the gestation period (i.e., the amount of time it takes before the baby is born)?

3. What, in the report documented in Chapter 7, does the Investigator say is an "appalling experience?"

4. What name does Estraven give the man who rescues him?

5. What is the length of the Gethenians' sexual cycle?

(see the answer key)

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