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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Homecoming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Male.
(d) Both genders.

2. When Genly finally gets to Mishnory, whom does he find there?
(a) Estraven.
(b) Prime Minister Tibe.
(c) Ashe.
(d) King Argaven.

3. What happens to Genly during the first week of his arrest?
(a) He is placed on trial.
(b) His passport is returned to him and he is released.
(c) He is hit on by an Orgota in kemmer.
(d) He is drugged and interrogated.

4. What is the monogamous partnership between two Gethenians called?
(a) Partnership.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Kemmering.
(d) Somering.

5. As Chapter 14 opens, what realization has Estraven come to?
(a) He realizes that he can no longer rely on Tibe.
(b) He realizes that the Sarf was right to have arrested Genly Ai.
(c) He has realized that he can no longer rely on his "friends" Obsle and Yegey.
(d) He realizes that the only two people in Mishnory he can trust are Obsle and Yegey.

Short Answer Questions

1. As of the beginning of Chapter 18, for how many days had Genly and Estraven been traveling?

2. What happens for the first time in Chapter 6?

3. Who finds Getheren on the ninth day after he leaves his homeland?

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

5. What is the nineteenth day of the month known as?

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