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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, One Way in to Orgoreyn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?
(a) Poverty/poverty.
(b) Prosperity/poverty.
(c) Poverty/prosperity.
(d) Prosperity/prosperity.

2. What happens to Estraven when he tries to leave Kuseben by boat?
(a) Nothing happens; he successfully escapes and lands at Shelt Port in Orgoreyn.
(b) He is shot by a sonic gun, then rescued by a harbor patrol ship.
(c) The boat sinks and he drowns.
(d) He is shot by a sonic gun, and is captured by Tibe's forces.

3. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?
(a) What is the meaning of life?
(b) Why is the sky blue?
(c) What happens after death?
(d) When will I die?

4. What is the nature of the request made by Genly Ai in Chapter 6?
(a) He requests permission to enter the Commensality.
(b) He asks to be taken to Shelt Port.
(c) He asks Estraven to pledge kemmering to him.
(d) He requests asylum in Orgoreyn.

5. What happens to Lord Berosty after his kemmering's death?
(a) Lord Berosty is tried and executed for the kemmering's murder... on the nineteenth day of the month of Thern.
(b) Lord Berosty grieves, but eventually finds another kemmering.
(c) Lord Berosty relocates permanently to the Thangering Fastness and becomes a monk.
(d) He goes mad and hangs himself on the nineteenth day of the month of Thern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What themes are highlighted in the story told in Chapter 4?

2. What is the name of the place where Estraven is granted asylum, to which he must travel?

3. Who is waiting for Estraven at the city gate when he arrives in Kuseben?

4. What is the Gethenians' mating cycle known as?

5. Where does Genly think about going next, and where does he actually decide to go?

(see the answer key)

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