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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. What does Genly learn during his lunch with the local politicians?
(a) He learns what the Sarf is.
(b) He learns that Slose wants to make a religion out of him.
(c) He learns that his life is in danger.
(d) He learns that the King's child was born that morning, but survived less than an hour.

2. After Genly comes to live in Mishnory, what does Estraven find strange about how the local government is handling the presence of a First Mobile in their town?
(a) He finds it strange that all information pertaining to Genly is censored by the Sarf.
(b) He finds it strange that Genly is being talked about in the media as if he were a celebrity.
(c) He finds it strange that his association with Genly hasn't cost him his job.
(d) He finds it strange that Tibe's men didn't somehow follow Genly to Mishnory.

3. How long does a journey from Gethen to the Prime World, Hain, take?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 670 years.
(c) 76 years.
(d) 67 years.

4. What name does Estraven give the man who rescues him?
(a) Therem of Estre.
(b) Estraven.
(c) Arek of Estre.
(d) Therem of Stok.

5. It's been pointed out many times in "The Left Hand of Darkness," thus far, that the Gethenians are androgynous. What does "androgynous" mean?
(a) No apparent gender--can't tell whether the being is male or female.
(b) Female.
(c) Both genders.
(d) Male.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?

2. What is Genly's opinion of Estraven's presence in Orgoreyn?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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