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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. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?
(a) Yes; they knew the answer, but refused to give it to him.
(b) No; they said no one could possibly know that answer.
(c) No; they clubbed him to death to get out of answering it.
(d) Yes; however, the answer was never recorded and is lost to history.

2. What is the purpose of Genly's meeting with the king?
(a) To talk to the king about Estraven.
(b) To ask permission to travel to Orgoreyn.
(c) To convince the king that he is an envoy from another planet, and to start a dialogue about Gethen becoming part of the Ekumen.
(d) To pledge kemmering to the king.

3. What is the price Genly is charged for an audience with the Foretellers?
(a) As a First Mobile, he isn't charged anything.
(b) Two rubies.
(c) Three rubies.
(d) One ruby.

4. What are the two themes that are introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) Journey and discovery.
(b) Love and betrayal.
(c) Betrayal and fear of the unknown.
(d) Religion and spirituality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Foretellers' answer to the question that Genly asks them?

2. How far is Rer from Karhide?

3. In this story, what does the main character, Lord Berosty, do?

4. What is the significance of the title of Chapter 4, "The Nineteenth Day?"

5. Before leaving his homeland, what does Getheren do?

(see the answer key)

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