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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Question of Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the important themes of Chapter 2?
(a) Kemmering and love.
(b) Betrayal and hatred.
(c) Breaking the law and exile.
(d) Marriage and divorce.

2. What, in the report documented in Chapter 7, does the Investigator say is an "appalling experience?"
(a) Being judged as a human.
(b) Watching a Gethenian give birth.
(c) Being judged as a Gethenian.
(d) Having sex with a Gethenian.

3. Who tells Getheren that he is in danger of suicide?
(a) Estraven.
(b) Genly Ai.
(c) Hode, his brother and kemmering.
(d) The Lord of Shath.

4. What does Estraven do once he learns of his exile?
(a) He attempts to murder Tibe.
(b) He writes to his former kemmering to ask if he can join him in the Orgny Fastness.
(c) He sends a telegram to Genly to ask for his help.
(d) Estraven writes to his former kemmering, telling him to sell certain valuables so that their sons will have money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mortar the king applies to the Arch's keystone made of?

2. What answer (in part) does the king receive?

3. What is the purpose of Genly's meeting with the king?

4. What does Odren tell Lord Berosty's kemmering?

5. What is the origin of the story told in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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