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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the beginning, how were the hills and valleys made?
(a) Excrement was removed from the sleepers.
(b) Excrement was pulled out of the ground.
(c) Excrement was pulled out of the sun.
(d) As the ice melted, its movement formed hills and valleys.

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

4. 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 executed.
(b) He is taken back to Karhide and imprisoned.
(c) He is executed in Sassinoth.
(d) He is imprisoned in Sassinoth.

5. What do Estraven and Genly do when they arrive at the Bay of Guthen?
(a) They convert the sledge to a boat.
(b) They set off on skis.
(c) They abandon the sledge and make up backpacks.
(d) They put the wheels back on the sledge.

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

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

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

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

10. When Genly and other prisoners are taken from their first detention facility, what is their destination?
(a) Kundershaden Prison.
(b) The Gobrin Ice.
(c) A Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley.
(d) The Pulefen Commensality Third Voluntary Farm.

11. 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) Shifgrethor.
(b) Foreteller.
(c) First Mobile.
(d) Kemmer.

12. What does Estraven do with the letter he writes to his son, and why?
(a) He doesn't send it because it would condemn his son.
(b) He doesn't send it because he disowned his son.
(c) He hand delivers it to his son.
(d) He sends it because he misses his son.

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

14. Why, after Estraven's successful pesthry hunt, does it become more difficult for him and Genly to travel for the next several days?
(a) Genly has constant diarrhea because the pesthry didn't agree with him.
(b) A blizzard begins, lasting nine days.
(c) The sledge breaks down and everything on it has be be carried by hand.
(d) The weather changes from snow to rain, turning the snow to mush.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is known as the Center of Time?

2. Why do Genly and Estraven want to go to Sassinoth?

3. On what day of their trip do Genly and Estraven eventually arrive in Karhide?

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

5. 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?

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