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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is known as the Center of Time?
(a) Handara.
(b) Yomesh.
(c) Tuhulme.
(d) Meshe.

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

3. What is the name of the high priest?
(a) Yomesh.
(b) Meshe.
(c) Handdara.
(d) Tuhulme.

4. After Estraven receives money from Genly, where does he find work?
(a) Estraven goes back to work in the icehouse, packing fish.
(b) Estraven doesn't have a job.
(c) Estraven finds work with the government.
(d) Estraven takes a job in a plastics factory.

5. During his stay at the farm where Genly is being held, Estraven goes into a state of increased strength called:
(a) Insanity.
(b) Dothe.
(c) Kemmer.
(d) Starvation.

6. What happens during Estraven and Genly's descent of Mount Dremegole?
(a) A wheel gets stuck and the axle bends.
(b) Genly twists his ankle.
(c) Estraven slips on a patch of ice.
(d) The sledge tips and they lose sixty pounds of food.

7. What happens when Genly speaks before the Thirty-Three?
(a) Genly is deported by the Thirty-Three.
(b) Obsle becomes convinced that Genly is a good person.
(c) News of Genly finally became public knowledge in Orgoreyn.
(d) Obsle becomes afraid of him and cancels the reception that was scheduled for him.

8. After Genly's meeting with Agraven, where is the Star Ship given clearance to land?
(a) Athten Fen.
(b) The Corner Red Dwelling.
(c) Gobrin Ice.
(d) The Round-Tower Dwelling.

9. After Estraven's death at the end of Chapter 19, what does Chapter 20 tell us happens to Genly?
(a) He is taken back to Karhide and imprisoned.
(b) He is imprisoned in Sassinoth.
(c) He is executed in Sassinoth.
(d) He is taken back to Karhide and executed.

10. At one point, Genly finds himself alone in the dormitory with a dying inmate named Asra. What does Genly tell Asra about he people on his (Genly's) planet?
(a) He tells Asra that the people on his planet never go into kemmer.
(b) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are not androgynous.
(c) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are in kemmer all the time.
(d) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are all blond-haired and blue-eyed.

11. On what day of their trip do Genly and Estraven eventually arrive in Karhide?
(a) The 81st day.
(b) The 18th day.
(c) The 51st day.
(d) The 100th day.

12. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?
(a) The Gobrin Ice.
(b) Nothing--the world was without form and void.
(c) Edondurath.
(d) Sun and ice.

13. Whom does Estraven believe the people of Orgoreyn fear?
(a) Estraven.
(b) Genly.
(c) Karhide.
(d) Each other.

14. In his continued arrogance, what does Genly refer to himself as, in comparison with Estraven?
(a) He considers himself a mule and Estraven a stallion.
(b) He considers himself an owl and Estraven a pigeon.
(c) He considers himself a stallion and Estraven a mule.
(d) He considers himself a stallion and Estraven a pesthry.

15. By the end of Chapter 16, how many total miles since leaving their first camp have Estraven and Genly covered?
(a) 254.
(b) 245.
(c) 13.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the blizzard, what Earth game does Genly teach Estraven to play?

2. What is the Orgota religion's viewpoint on good and evil?

3. How many of the sleepers did Edondurath kill after he woke up?

4. According to the Orgota creation myth, what will happen to the world at its end?

5. Did Genly accomplish, in the end, his mission to incorporate Winter into the Ekumen, according to Chapter 20?

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