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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: "Three Body," Chapters 15-20 and Part III: "Sunset for Humanity," Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scientific paper is presented to Ye Wenjie as one that she wrote in 1966 in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?
(a) "Focus Series on Density Matrix Reformalization."
(b) "The Possible Existence of Phase Boundaries Within the Solar Radiation Zone and Their Reflective Characteristics."
(c) "Ergodic-nonergodic Transition in Tapped Granular Systems: The Role of Persistent Conacts."
(d) "Fluctuation-induced Transport, from the Very Small to the Very Large Scales."

2. What setting is established in the opening of Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) The Greater Khingan Mountains.
(b) The Pamir Mountains.
(c) The Qilian Mountains.
(d) The Himalayan Mountains.

3. What did Ye Wenjie study in college?
(a) Chinese history.
(b) Chinese literature.
(c) Biology.
(d) Astrophysics.

4. For how long is the gate computing system put into place in Chapter 17, "Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy"?
(a) Two months.
(b) 16 months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Nine months.

5. For how long had the Red Union "been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade" when Chapter 1, "The Madness Years" begins?
(a) For six days.
(b) For four days.
(c) For two days.
(d) For two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who launched the Planck satellite, according to the narrator in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?

2. Who is the source of the papers that are presented to Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

3. Wei Cheng reveals that his research on the three-body problem is similar to what method in Chapter 16, "The Three Body Problem"?

4. What was the codename for China's first test of a three-staged thermonuclear device?

5. What field studies celestial objects at radio frequencies?

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