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

2. Is Lord Berosty satisfied with the answer he receives? Why?
(a) Yes. He knows that only three months of the year have nineteen days.
(b) No. He wants the answer to be a different day than the nineteenth.
(c) No. He wants to know the month and year as well.
(d) Yes. Nineteen is his favorite number.

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

4. Which picture offends the king when Genly shows it to him?
(a) A picture of a fellow Gethenian.
(b) A picture of a female from Cime.
(c) A picture of a male from Earth.
(d) A picture of the supreme leader of the Ekumen.

5. In Chapter 1, who is Pemmer Harge rem ir Tibe ('Tibe' for short) described as?
(a) The king's cousin.
(b) There is no one in the book by this name.
(c) The mayor of Erhenrang.
(d) The Prime Minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does a journey from Gethen to the Prime World, Hain, take?

2. What are the important themes of Chapter 2?

3. How long does Genly's journey to Rer, which is described in Chapter 5, take?

4. What message does the king ask Genly to send to Hain using his communicator?

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

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