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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Edondurath's house made from?
(a) Sticks and hay.
(b) Bricks.
(c) Snow and ice.
(d) The corpses of the others he had killed.

2. What happens during Estraven and Genly's descent of Mount Dremegole?
(a) A wheel gets stuck and the axle bends.
(b) Genly twists his ankle.
(c) Estraven slips on a patch of ice.
(d) The sledge tips and they lose sixty pounds of food.

3. What happens in Orgoreyn after Agraven confronts the Commensals about what they did to Genly?
(a) Many Commensals are replaced, Obsle's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.
(b) The Commensals send assassins to kill Agraven and Tibe is appointed king.
(c) Many Commensals are replaced, Faxe takes control, and Tibe is executed.
(d) Many Commensals are replaced, Yegey's party takes control, and Tibe resigns.

4. How long ago did the High Priest compose the sayings in Chapter 12?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) 600 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 900 years.

5. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?
(a) Nothing--the world was without form and void.
(b) Sun and ice.
(c) Edondurath.
(d) The Gobrin Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of prisoner is Genly?

2. In the beginning, how were the hills and valleys made?

3. By the end of Chapter 16, how many total miles since leaving their first camp have Estraven and Genly covered?

4. What is the name of the first Karhidish village to which Genly and Estraven come?

5. Why, after Estraven's successful pesthry hunt, does it become more difficult for him and Genly to travel for the next several days?

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