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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the gender of the inhabitants of Gethen?
(a) Entirely male.
(b) Entirely female.
(c) Male and female.
(d) Androgynous.

2. What does Estraven do once he learns of his exile?
(a) Estraven writes to his former kemmering, telling him to sell certain valuables so that their sons will have money.
(b) He sends a telegram to Genly to ask for his help.
(c) He attempts to murder Tibe.
(d) He writes to his former kemmering to ask if he can join him in the Orgny Fastness.

3. Do Gethenians become pregnant as males, or as females?
(a) Gethenians don't experience pregnancy.
(b) Either gender can become pregnant.
(c) Females.
(d) Males.

4. Who is waiting for Estraven at the city gate when he arrives in Kuseben?
(a) Genly Ai.
(b) Tibe.
(c) Ashe, his former kemmering.
(d) His two sons.

5. What takes place between Estraven II and Therem of Stok?
(a) They vow to continue their feud until one of them dies.
(b) They vow kemmering.
(c) They vow peace between their two houses.
(d) They kill each other.

6. Is Lord Berosty satisfied with the answer he receives? Why?
(a) Yes. Nineteen is his favorite number.
(b) No. He wants the answer to be a different day than the nineteenth.
(c) Yes. He knows that only three months of the year have nineteen days.
(d) No. He wants to know the month and year as well.

7. What does Genly carry in the case that he brings to his meeting with King Argaven?
(a) Pictures.
(b) His ansible communicator and pictures.
(c) His ansible communicator.
(d) Money and gifts that were sent by the Ekumen to the king.

8. What does Lord Berosty's kemmering offer in return for being told how long Lord Berosty will live?
(a) He offers his first-born child.
(b) He offers three cows and a chicken.
(c) He offers his life's savings.
(d) He offers his life.

9. What is Genly Ai's mission?
(a) Genly's mission is to negotiate an alliance between Gethen and the Ekumen of Known Worlds.
(b) Genly's mission is to encourage Erhenrang to secede from Karhide.
(c) Genly doesn't have a mission; he's just sightseeing.
(d) Genly's mission is to convince Gethen to leave the Ekumen of Known Worlds.

10. Why does Berosty kill his kemmering after his return from Thangering Fastness and Weaver Odren?
(a) The kemmering didn't ask *how long* Lord Berosty would live, but instead *when* Lord Berosty would die.
(b) He didn't ask *when* Lord Berosty would die, but *how long* Lord Berosty would live.
(c) Berosty discovered his partner had broken kemmering.
(d) Berosty didn't want his kemmering to approach Weaver Odren, and the kemmering had disobeyed his orders.

11. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?
(a) Poverty/poverty.
(b) Prosperity/poverty.
(c) Poverty/prosperity.
(d) Prosperity/prosperity.

12. What is the price Genly is charged for an audience with the Foretellers?
(a) As a First Mobile, he isn't charged anything.
(b) Three rubies.
(c) One ruby.
(d) Two rubies.

13. What answer (in part) does the king receive?
(a) I sent Genly to you to ask your nation to join the Ekumen.
(b) I do not know what makes a man loyal.
(c) I do not know what makes a man a traitor.
(d) I want Gethen to join the Ekumen to promote universal peace and harmony.

14. What is the Gethenians' sexual orientation, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Heterosexual.
(b) Androgynous.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Asexual.

15. What name does Estraven give to the doctor while he is in the hospital?
(a) Therem Ai.
(b) Therem Harth.
(c) Therem Ashe.
(d) Therem Estraven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chapter 5 say that Genly has come to Rer?

2. When does the story in Chapter 2 take place?

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

4. What is the name of Lord Berosty's kemmering?

5. What is the nature of the request made by Genly Ai in Chapter 6?

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