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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. Who is the story in Chapter 9 about?
(a) King Argaven's ancestors.
(b) Estraven, an ancestor of the Estraven who was once Prime Minister of Karhide.
(c) Estraven, the former prime minster of Karhide who has been granted asylum in Mishnory.
(d) Stokven, Therem of Stok.

2. Do Gethenians become pregnant as males, or as females?
(a) Gethenians don't experience pregnancy.
(b) Either gender can become pregnant.
(c) Females.
(d) Males.

3. Why does Berosty kill his kemmering after his return from Thangering Fastness and Weaver Odren?
(a) Berosty didn't want his kemmering to approach Weaver Odren, and the kemmering had disobeyed his orders.
(b) Berosty discovered his partner had broken kemmering.
(c) The kemmering didn't ask *how long* Lord Berosty would live, but instead *when* Lord Berosty would die.
(d) He didn't ask *when* Lord Berosty would die, but *how long* Lord Berosty would live.

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

5. What is the Gethenians' mating cycle known as?
(a) Mating cycle.
(b) Being in heat.
(c) Kemmer.
(d) Libido.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Genly live during the month of Kus?

2. Where does Estraven find employment in his new home?

3. What does Genly think the reason for Tibe's frequent radio appearances is?

4. What does Genly learn during his lunch with the local politicians?

5. What significance does the Sarf have for Genly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Genly's decision to take money to Estraven on Ashe's behalf significant?

2. What is Genly's impression of Orgoreyn?

3. What behavior exhibited by Genly in chapter 19 when he goes into town to make a transmission to the Star Ship, shows that he has grown in his ability to be patient?

4. Why, in Chapter 15, are Genly and Estraven still calling each other by their last names (respectively, Ai and Therem)?

5. What does the answer given to Genly by the Foretellers foreshadow?

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

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

8. Is the information presented in Chapter 7 presented as fact, or as the investigator's opinion?

9. Who is really in control of Orgoreyn? Is it the Commensals and the Thirty-Three? How does this bode for Genly?

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

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