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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 is Genly Ai's mission?
(a) Genly doesn't have a mission; he's just sightseeing.
(b) Genly's mission is to negotiate an alliance between Gethen and the Ekumen of Known Worlds.
(c) Genly's mission is to encourage Erhenrang to secede from Karhide.
(d) Genly's mission is to convince Gethen to leave the Ekumen of Known Worlds.

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

3. What does Lord Berosty's kemmering offer in return for being told how long Lord Berosty will live?
(a) He offers three cows and a chicken.
(b) He offers his life.
(c) He offers his life's savings.
(d) He offers his first-born child.

4. The planet on which Genly Ai is stationed is called 'Gethen' by its inhabitants. What do humans know this planet as?
(a) Earth.
(b) Formaldehyde 5.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

5. What does Genly do during his time in Otherhord, while he is waiting to be taken to the Foretellers?
(a) Genly is apprenticed to the blacksmith.
(b) Genly assists in the communal work of field labor, gardening, woodcutting, and maintenance.
(c) Genly tries to convince Otherhord to become part of the Ekumen.
(d) Genly works in the village's general store.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Is it possible for a Gethenian to change gender from one period of sexual activity to another?

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

4. What is the proclamation made just before Genly is taken in to see the king?

5. What is the period of time during which a Gethenian is sexually inactive called?

(see the answer key)

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