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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What message does the king ask Genly to send to Hain using his communicator?
(a) What makes a man loyal?
(b) Why did you send Genly here?
(c) Why do you want my nation to join the Ekumen?
(d) What makes a man a traitor?

2. Who wants to bring the ship to Orgota?
(a) Yegey and Slose.
(b) Yegey and Obsle.
(c) Genly and Estraven.
(d) Slose and Gaum.

3. Why is it so monumental that Estraven and Stokven swore kemmering to each other?
(a) They are enemies.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are of different races.
(d) They are the same gender.

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

5. What is Estraven II known throughout history as for his actions?
(a) Estraven the Traitor.
(b) Estraven the Shrewd.
(c) Estraven the Loyal.
(d) Estraven the Idiot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?

2. When Genly and other prisoners are taken from their first detention facility, what is their destination?

3. Who is the story in Chapter 9 about?

4. What is the length of the Gethenians' sexual cycle?

5. What important concept is brought up again in Chapter 10?

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