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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As of the beginning of Chapter 18, for how many days had Genly and Estraven been traveling?
(a) 5 days.
(b) A year.
(c) 50 days.
(d) 15 days.

2. What happens to Genly during the first week of his arrest?
(a) He is drugged and interrogated.
(b) His passport is returned to him and he is released.
(c) He is placed on trial.
(d) He is hit on by an Orgota in kemmer.

3. What happens in Orgoreyn after Agraven confronts the Commensals about what they did to Genly?
(a) Many Commensals are replaced, Yegey's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.
(b) The Commensals send assassins to kill Agraven and Tibe is appointed king.
(c) Many Commensals are replaced, Obsle's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.
(d) Many Commensals are replaced, Faxe takes control, and Tibe is executed.

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

5. 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 takes a job in a plastics factory.
(d) Estraven finds work with the government.

6. 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) Orsh and gichy-michy.
(b) Pesthry and gichy-michy.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Pesthry and orsh.

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

8. What is the name of the first Karhidish village to which Genly and Estraven come?
(a) Kurkurast.
(b) Sassinoth.
(c) Erhenrang.
(d) Sinoth.

9. What role does Estraven tell Genly that King Argaven will be able to play with Orgota once he receives word of Genly's capture?
(a) Kemmer.
(b) Shifgrethor.
(c) Foreteller.
(d) First Mobile.

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

11. 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 has realized that he can no longer rely on his "friends" Obsle and Yegey.
(d) He realizes that he can no longer rely on Tibe.

12. How does Estraven blackmail Shusgis?
(a) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Obsle and Yegey.
(b) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Genly Ai.
(c) By telling him he (Estraven) is part of a plan to assassinate Tibe.
(d) By telling him that he (Estraven) was asked to assassinate him, but would rather protect him instead.

13. 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 Tibe's men didn't somehow follow Genly to Mishnory.
(b) He finds it strange that all information pertaining to Genly is censored by the Sarf.
(c) He finds it strange that Genly is being talked about in the media as if he were a celebrity.
(d) He finds it strange that his association with Genly hasn't cost him his job.

14. How does Estraven acquire the initial supplies and food for the winter journey?
(a) He acquires them before freeing Genly and hides them for later access.
(b) He goes hunting.
(c) He buys them in Turuf.
(d) He steals them in Turuf.

15. What type of prisoner is Genly?
(a) Political prisoner.
(b) Prisoner of conscience.
(c) Prisoner of love.
(d) Prisoner of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Estraven leaves Mishnory under an assumed name and with forged papers, where does he wind up?

2. What do Estraven and Genly do when they arrive at the Bay of Guthen?

3. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?

4. What happens when Genly speaks before the Thirty-Three?

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

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