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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Investigator's field notes say about being a First Mobile on Winter?
(a) No First Mobile has ever returned from Winter alive.
(b) First Mobiles are accepted as natives.
(c) First Mobiles must be self-assured, because their pride will be tested.
(d) First Mobiles must have low self-esteem, because anything else is seen as arrogance.

2. What important concept is brought up again in Chapter 10?
(a) Honesty and genuineness.
(b) Facade and veneer.
(c) Death and life.
(d) Love and betrayal.

3. What religion are the Foretellers?
(a) Orgota.
(b) Yomesh.
(c) Karhidish.
(d) Handdarata.

4. Who finds Getheren on the ninth day after he leaves his homeland?
(a) The people of Orhoch Hearth.
(b) The posse sent by the Lord of Hearth.
(c) Hode.
(d) No one; he dies of exposure as a result.

5. In Chapter 18, Genly and Estraven have gone through much of the provisions they started with. What do we learn that Genly and Estraven are now relying on eating for nourishment?
(a) Pesthry and orsh.
(b) Orsh and gichy-michy.
(c) Pesthry and gichy-michy.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Ekumen send only one representative to Karhide?

2. How did Estraven thaw Genly's left eye when it froze shut?

3. What is the period of time during which a Gethenian is sexually active called?

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

5. This city is the capital of the nation of Karhide:

(see the answer key)

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