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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Genly and Estraven come out of Tarrenpeth Forest, a few days into their journey, what does Estraven use his previously-acquired hunting skills to trap?
(a) Pesthry, a type of game bird.
(b) Pesthry, a fox-like omnivore.
(c) Pesthry, a fox-like carnivore.
(d) Pesthry, a fox-like herbivore.

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

3. 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 he can no longer rely on Tibe.
(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.

4. After Genly comes to live in Mishnory, what does Estraven find strange about how the local government is handling the presence of a First Mobile in their town?
(a) He finds it strange that his association with Genly hasn't cost him his job.
(b) He finds it strange that Tibe's men didn't somehow follow Genly to Mishnory.
(c) He finds it strange that all information pertaining to Genly is censored by the Sarf.
(d) He finds it strange that Genly is being talked about in the media as if he were a celebrity.

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

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

7. When Estraven leaves Mishnory under an assumed name and with forged papers, where does he wind up?
(a) Estraven is found out, and is imprisoned for forging his documents.
(b) In the Rotherer Fastness.
(c) In Ethwen.
(d) In Karhide.

8. By the end of Chapter 16, what has happened to Estraven?
(a) He is starving himself.
(b) He has gone into dothe.
(c) He has gone into kemmer.
(d) He has lost all patience with Genly.

9. Who agrees to take a message on Estraven's behalf to King Argaven regarding what has happened to Genly Ai?
(a) Shusgis.
(b) The Thirty-Three.
(c) Sardon rem ir Chenewich.
(d) Ashe.

10. What does Genly do in Chapter 19 that he would not allow himself to do in Chapter 16?
(a) Genly allows himself to trust Estraven.
(b) Genly has sex with Estraven.
(c) Genly breaks down and cries.
(d) Genly stops and asks for directions.

11. What is the name of the Orgota religion?
(a) Tuhulme.
(b) Orgoreyn.
(c) Yomesh.
(d) Handdara.

12. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?
(a) Ashe, Estraven's former kemmering.
(b) Heo Lang Hew.
(c) Esvans Harth ir rem Estraven, Estraven's father, and Arek, Estraven's older brother.
(d) The Weaver Orden.

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

14. How did Estraven thaw Genly's left eye when it froze shut?
(a) With his breath.
(b) By rubbing it.
(c) With warm water.
(d) With his breath and tongue.

15. In Chapter 20, who is the first off the Star Ship after it lands?
(a) A woman named Lang Heo Hew.
(b) A woman named Heo Lang Hew.
(c) Genly's immediate supervisor.
(d) Genly's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of prisoner is Genly?

2. According to the Orgota creation myth, how many men were created?

3. 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?

4. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?

5. What is the name of the high priest?

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