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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. If a Gethenian becomes pregnant, how long is the gestation period (i.e., the amount of time it takes before the baby is born)?
(a) 8.4 months.
(b) Gethenians don't experience pregnancy.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 4.8 months.

2. What significance does the Sarf have for Genly?
(a) Gaum, the head of the Sarf, accepts Genly--this means he is safe from arrest.
(b) Genly is an ambassador; therefore, the Sarf has no significance for him because of his political immunity.
(c) Slose, the head of the Sarf, thinks Genly is a fake--this puts him in danger of arrest.
(d) Gaum, the head of the Sarf, thinks Genly is a fake--this puts him in danger of arrest.

3. What is the advice that Estraven gives Genly during his visit to Genly's apartment in Mishnory?
(a) He tells Genly that Orgoreyn is a much better place from which to achieve his mission.
(b) He tells Genly that he is being used as a tool and that it will harm him if he isn't careful.
(c) He tells Genly to encourage Orgoreyn to join the Ekumen.
(d) He tells Genly to leave Orgoreyn as soon as possible because his life is in danger.

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

5. Who is waiting for Estraven at the city gate when he arrives in Kuseben?
(a) Tibe.
(b) His two sons.
(c) Ashe, his former kemmering.
(d) Genly Ai.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?

2. Two nights and one day after Estraven and Stokven become kemmers, Estraven is attacked by a party from Stok and presumed killed. Stokven tells his countrymen what to do with Estraven's body. Did they follow Stokven's orders?

3. What is the mortar the king applies to the Arch's keystone made of?

4. What is the Foretellers' answer to the question that Genly asks them?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the story in Chapter 9 foreshadow?

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

3. What "tale" of his planet does Genly tell Asra?

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

5. What is the nature of the relationship between Karhide and Orgoreyn?

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

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

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

9. What do High Priest Tuhulme's comments about Yomesh being a one-sided religion mean?

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

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