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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Karhidish religion's viewpoint on good and evil?
(a) There is only good; there is no evil.
(b) There is neither good nor evil.
(c) There is only evil; there is no good.
(d) Both good and evil exist.

3. What illegal (according to the Law of Cultural Embargo) skill does Genly teach Estraven?
(a) Levitation.
(b) Interplanetary travel.
(c) Mind-speech.
(d) How to understand women.

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

5. What is Edondurath's house made from?
(a) The corpses of the others he had killed.
(b) Snow and ice.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Sticks and hay.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 fox-like carnivore.
(b) Pesthry, a fox-like omnivore.
(c) Pesthry, a type of game bird.
(d) Pesthry, a fox-like herbivore.

11. According to the Orgota creation myth, how many men were created?
(a) 42.
(b) 93.
(c) 2, one male and one female.
(d) 39.

12. As Chapter 15 opens, where do Genly and Estraven decide to hide for the winter?
(a) Kerm Ice.
(b) Mishnory.
(c) Gethen.
(d) Gobrin Ice.

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

14. When Estraven finishes calculating the rations for their winter journey, what parameters does he establish?
(a) Considering the distance is 400 miles, traveling at a rate of 12 miles a day, they have enough rations for 30 days.
(b) Considering the distance is 400 miles, and they need to travel at a rate of 21 miles a day, they have enough rations for 30 days.
(c) Considering the distance is 800 miles, traveling at a rate of 21 miles a day, they have enough rations for 78 days.
(d) Considering the trip is 800 miles, and traveling at a rate of 12 miles a day, they have enough rations for 78 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, after Estraven's successful pesthry hunt, does it become more difficult for him and Genly to travel for the next several days?

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

3. Whom does Estraven believe the people of Orgoreyn fear?

4. What does Estraven's social status change to after he receives the money from Genly?

5. What was the Gobrin Ice Plateau like, according to Genly's notes?

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