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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the important themes of Chapter 2?
2. What happens to Getheren on the third morning after his departure from his homeland?
3. What is the nineteenth day of the month known as?
4. How does Genly Ai spend the summer?
5. What is the Sarf?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the Lord of Estre decide to raise the baby that was given to the warder as a son of the hearth?
2. What is the significance of the completion of the Arch of River Gate?
3. What does Estraven accomplish in Chapter 6 concerning Genly Ai?
4. How does betrayal figure in Chapter 9?
5. The Pering Ice and Gobrin Ice are mentioned in Chapter 2. What significance does this have?
6. What does Sorve, Estraven's son, ask Genly to tell him about?
7. How are Genly and Estraven's sense of personal responsibility for their fellow man different?
8. Why, in Chapter 15, are Genly and Estraven still calling each other by their last names (respectively, Ai and Therem)?
9. 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?
10. What does Genly do during the time it takes him to journey to the border between Karhide and Orgoreyn? How is he treated during his travels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about Estraven's statement regarding patriotism, "What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing." How do the inhabitants of Orgoreyn, and those of Karhide, show their patriotism for their respective countries? Back your statements up with excerpts from the novel, then compare and contrast both Orgoreyn and Karhide's expressions of patriotism with how patriotism is expressed and displayed in your own country. What do you think is good about how Orgoreyn and Karhide express their patriotism that perhaps should be adopted in your country, and what about how patriotism is expressed in your country should be adopted by Orgoreyn and Karhide (if that were possible)?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the different viewpoints concerning good and evil expressed by the Orgota religion, Yomesh, and the Karhidish religion, Handdara, affect how each country treats Genly Ai, at least on the surface.
Essay Topic 3
Think about the way Genly and other political prisoners are treated, how they are transported, how they are fed, and how--as well as where--they are housed. What real-life groups of people who behaved and were treated similarly, during what period of history, do the Orgota and their prisoners resemble? In your response, make sure you quote passages from Chapter 13 and show how they parallel the real-life event or events you choose to discuss.
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