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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Between Drummer and Dremegole.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The relationship between which two characters is introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) Genly Ai and Estraven.
(b) Genly Ai and King Argaven.
(c) King Argaven and Tibe.
(d) Estraven and Tibe.

2. How does Estraven blackmail Shusgis?
(a) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Genly Ai.
(b) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Tibe.
(c) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Obsle and Yegey.
(d) By telling him that he (Estraven) was asked to assassinate him, but would rather protect him instead.

3. What is the purpose of Genly's meeting with the king?
(a) To ask permission to travel to Orgoreyn.
(b) To talk to the king about Estraven.
(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.

4. What literary construct is intended by the introduction into the story of Argaven's pregnancy?
(a) Satire.
(b) Humor.
(c) Irony.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What is the name of the Investigator who documents Gethenians' androgyny?
(a) Oppong Ong Tot.
(b) Oppong Tot Ong.
(c) Tot Ong Oppong.
(d) Ong Tot Oppong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Estraven escape on foot?

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

3. When Genly finally gets to Mishnory, whom does he find there?

4. What happens to Getheren on the third morning after his departure from his homeland?

5. Whose name comes up during Estraven's dinner conversation with Commensals Yegey and Obsle?

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