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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 literary construct is intended by the introduction into the story of Argaven's pregnancy?
(a) Satire.
(b) Humor.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Irony.

2. How long does Genly's journey to Rer, which is described in Chapter 5, take?
(a) Four days.
(b) Four years.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Four weeks.

3. 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) The question he had asked the Foretellers and the answer they gave him.
(c) A request to reconsider the decree exiling Estraven.
(d) A request for an explanation of why Tibe is making so many radio addresses.

4. What, in the report documented in Chapter 7, does the Investigator say is an "appalling experience?"
(a) Watching a Gethenian give birth.
(b) Being judged as a Gethenian.
(c) Having sex with a Gethenian.
(d) Being judged as a human.

5. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?
(a) Why is the sky blue?
(b) When will I die?
(c) What is the meaning of life?
(d) What happens after death?

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds Getheren on the ninth day after he leaves his homeland?

2. Why does Genly return to Erhenrang in Chapter 8 after spending his summer on the Eastern Coast?

3. What does Lord Berosty do after receiving his Foretelling?

4. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?

5. On what day of the month is Genly allowed to visit the Nine Foretellers and ask his question?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a pregnant Gethenian's body?

2. What does Genly say to the Commensals that he never mentioned to King Argaven?

3. What does Commissioner Shusgis do that is so surprising to Genly? Why does it surprise him?

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

5. With what does this story say that Lord Berosty is obsessed with?

6. What communicates the imagery of facade and veneer in Chapter 10?

7. What is the nature of the relationship between Estraven and Tibe, and why?

8. What does Chapter 3 reveal to us about Genly's nature?

9. What does Sorve, Estraven's son, ask Genly to tell him about?

10. How does betrayal figure in Chapter 9?

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