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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lord Berosty do after receiving his Foretelling?
(a) He decides to live life to the fullest and starts living like a daredevil.
(b) He kills his kemmering.
(c) He commits suicide immediately.
(d) He returns to one of his family domains and locks himself in the Hearth-Tower for ten months.

2. What is the bridge on the river Ey?
(a) The border between Karhide and Orgoreyn.
(b) The border between Gorinhering and Erhenrang.
(c) A movie about POWs during the Second World War.
(d) The border between Orgoreyn and Mishnory.

3. What does Genly carry in the case that he brings to his meeting with King Argaven?
(a) His ansible communicator and pictures.
(b) His ansible communicator.
(c) Money and gifts that were sent by the Ekumen to the king.
(d) Pictures.

4. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?
(a) No; they said no one could possibly know that answer.
(b) No; they clubbed him to death to get out of answering it.
(c) Yes; however, the answer was never recorded and is lost to history.
(d) Yes; they knew the answer, but refused to give it to him.

5. After his return to Erhenrang, Genly sends Tibe a note. What is in this note?
(a) A request to help Genly get permission to enter Orgoreyn.
(b) A request for an explanation of why Tibe is making so many radio addresses.
(c) A request to reconsider the decree exiling Estraven.
(d) The question he had asked the Foretellers and the answer they gave him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news comes from Argaven's palace during the month of Kus?

2. What are the two themes that are introduced in Chapter 1?

3. The relationship between which two characters is introduced in Chapter 1?

4. Is Lord Berosty satisfied with the answer he receives? Why?

5. Why does the Ekumen send only one representative to Karhide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Shath Domain, Getheren's homeland, experiencing poverty and widespread illness near the end of Chapter 2?

2. Why are the non-human prisoners drugged, aside from interrogation purposes?

3. What is the only question that Faxe tells Genly can really be answered?

4. Isolation is once again highlighted in Chapter 15, and is now shared between Genly Ai and Estraven. What Native American saying fits this chapter, and what does the shared isolation force Genly and Estraven to do for the first time?

5. What is the Thangering Fastness?

6. As the ice melts and runs into the mouths of sleepers, what substance does it become?

7. What is the significance of the completion of the Arch of River Gate?

8. What does it mean when Handdara, the Karhidish religion, is described as having duality?

9. Why does Herbor, Lord Berosty's kemmering, offer his life for a Foretelling by the Weaver Odren after Berosty locked himself away?

10. What are the primary themes of Chapter 3?

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