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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 Estraven do once he learns of his exile?
(a) He attempts to murder Tibe.
(b) He sends a telegram to Genly to ask for his help.
(c) Estraven writes to his former kemmering, telling him to sell certain valuables so that their sons will have money.
(d) He writes to his former kemmering to ask if he can join him in the Orgny Fastness.

2. What important concept is brought up again in Chapter 10?
(a) Honesty and genuineness.
(b) Facade and veneer.
(c) Love and betrayal.
(d) Death and life.

3. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?
(a) Poverty/prosperity.
(b) Prosperity/prosperity.
(c) Poverty/poverty.
(d) Prosperity/poverty.

4. Who tells Getheren that he is in danger of suicide?
(a) Estraven.
(b) Genly Ai.
(c) The Lord of Shath.
(d) Hode, his brother and kemmering.

5. Where does Getheren wind up after he leaves Karhide?
(a) The Pering Ice.
(b) Orgoreyn.
(c) The Hearth of Shath.
(d) The Gobrin Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Genly do during his time in Otherhord, while he is waiting to be taken to the Foretellers?

2. What significance does the Sarf have for Genly?

3. What is Genly's opinion of Estraven's presence in Orgoreyn?

4. What is the length of the Gethenians' sexual cycle?

5. When a Gethenian becomes sexually active and finds a partner, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the primary themes of Chapter 3?

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

4. Why does Estraven enter dothe after he arrives at the farm where Genly is being held?

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

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

7. What themes are present in Chapter 5?

8. After the reception for Genly is called off, what is the advice Estraven gives to him?

9. What is different about the love in the fable told in Chapter 9?

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

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