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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is known as the Center of Time?
(a) Handara.
(b) Yomesh.
(c) Tuhulme.
(d) Meshe.

2. Why do Genly and Estraven want to go to Sassinoth?
(a) It is where Agraven lives at this time of year, and they want an audience with him.
(b) It is where Ashe is now living and Estraven wants to see him and their sons.
(c) It has a transmitter, so Genly will be able to contact the Starship.
(d) It is a city of safe refuge; Estraven will be protected and not have to worry about Tibe's men.

3. After Genly is captured and imprisoned in a work camp, what happens to him every five days and what is the consequence?
(a) He is physically tortured; he eventually becomes seriously ill because of it.
(b) He is drugged and interrogated; he eventually becomes seriously ill because of it.
(c) He is drugged and interrogated; he eventually dies because of it.
(d) He is physically tortured; he eventually dies because of it.

4. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?
(a) Heo Lang Hew.
(b) Esvans Harth ir rem Estraven, Estraven's father, and Arek, Estraven's older brother.
(c) Ashe, Estraven's former kemmering.
(d) The Weaver Orden.

5. What happens when Genly speaks before the Thirty-Three?
(a) Obsle becomes afraid of him and cancels the reception that was scheduled for him.
(b) News of Genly finally became public knowledge in Orgoreyn.
(c) Obsle becomes convinced that Genly is a good person.
(d) Genly is deported by the Thirty-Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who agrees to take a message on Estraven's behalf to King Argaven regarding what has happened to Genly Ai?

2. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?

3. Did Genly accomplish, in the end, his mission to incorporate Winter into the Ekumen, according to Chapter 20?

4. What is the Orgota religion's viewpoint on good and evil?

5. According to the Orgota creation myth, what will happen to the world at its end?

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