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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Domestication of Hunch.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary conflict in Chapter 2 that sets its events in motion?
(a) Two hearths go to war against each other.
(b) Two brothers are exiled.
(c) Two brothers are commanded to vow kemmering.
(d) Two brothers are commanded to break their kemmering vow.

2. What does Lord Berosty do after receiving his Foretelling?
(a) He returns to one of his family domains and locks himself in the Hearth-Tower for ten months.
(b) He commits suicide immediately.
(c) He kills his kemmering.
(d) He decides to live life to the fullest and starts living like a daredevil.

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

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

5. Where does Genly think about going next, and where does he actually decide to go?
(a) Orgoreyn/the Fastnesses.
(b) The Fastnesses/Orgoreyn.
(c) The Gobrin Ice/the Pering Ice.
(d) The Pering Ice/the Gobrin Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Genly finance the trip he takes in Chapter 5?

2. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?

3. What does Genly ask the Foretellers?

4. What is the nineteenth day of the month known as?

5. What does Genly carry in the case that he brings to his meeting with King Argaven?

(see the answer key)

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