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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news comes from Argaven's palace during the month of Kus?
(a) The Queen is pregnant.
(b) The King is pregnant.
(c) The King has vowed kemmer.
(d) The King is dying.

2. What is the name of the place where Estraven is granted asylum, to which he must travel?
(a) The Township of Mishnory.
(b) Therem Harth.
(c) South Mishnory.
(d) Orgoreyn.

3. This city is the capital of the nation of Karhide:
(a) Berlin.
(b) The Island.
(c) Orgoreyn.
(d) Erhenrang.

4. Who visits Genly the morning following the dinner with which Chapter 8 ends?
(a) The Commensals.
(b) Estraven.
(c) Argaven.
(d) Tibe.

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

6. What happens to Lord Berosty after his kemmering's death?
(a) Lord Berosty grieves, but eventually finds another kemmering.
(b) Lord Berosty is tried and executed for the kemmering's murder... on the nineteenth day of the month of Thern.
(c) Lord Berosty relocates permanently to the Thangering Fastness and becomes a monk.
(d) He goes mad and hangs himself on the nineteenth day of the month of Thern.

7. If a Gethenian becomes pregnant, how long is the gestation period (i.e., the amount of time it takes before the baby is born)?
(a) Gethenians don't experience pregnancy.
(b) 4.8 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 8.4 months.

8. Who tells Getheren that he is in danger of suicide?
(a) Genly Ai.
(b) Hode, his brother and kemmering.
(c) The Lord of Shath.
(d) Estraven.

9. What does Lord Berosty do after receiving his Foretelling?
(a) He decides to live life to the fullest and starts living like a daredevil.
(b) He returns to one of his family domains and locks himself in the Hearth-Tower for ten months.
(c) He commits suicide immediately.
(d) He kills his kemmering.

10. Who is the Prime Minister in Chapter 1?
(a) Pemmer Harge rem ir Tibe ('Tibe' for short) .
(b) Tony Blair.
(c) Therem Harth rem ir Estraven (Estraven for short).
(d) Genly Ai.

11. What is the Foretellers' answer to the question that Genly asks them?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) The question is unanswerable.
(d) No.

12. Where does Genly live during the month of Kus?
(a) Erhenrang.
(b) Orgoreyn.
(c) Gorinhering.
(d) Mishnory.

13. What happens to Estraven when he tries to leave Kuseben by boat?
(a) The boat sinks and he drowns.
(b) Nothing happens; he successfully escapes and lands at Shelt Port in Orgoreyn.
(c) He is shot by a sonic gun, and is captured by Tibe's forces.
(d) He is shot by a sonic gun, then rescued by a harbor patrol ship.

14. What are the important themes of Chapter 2?
(a) Betrayal and hatred.
(b) Marriage and divorce.
(c) Breaking the law and exile.
(d) Kemmering and love.

15. What is the period of time during which a Gethenian is sexually inactive called?
(a) Frigidity.
(b) Somer.
(c) Kemmer.
(d) Menopause.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gender of the inhabitants of Gethen?

2. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?

3. What does Genly do during his time in Otherhord, while he is waiting to be taken to the Foretellers?

4. Shortly after his arrival in Orgoreyn, Genly is invited to lunch with Commensals Obsle and Yegey. What information does Genly divulge to his hosts during this luncheon?

5. The planet on which Genly Ai is stationed is called 'Gethen' by its inhabitants. What do humans know this planet as?

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