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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: "Three Body," Chapters 8-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is established in China in the opening of Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1971.

2. What was the profession of Fu Lei?
(a) Painter.
(b) Translator and critic.
(c) Writer.
(d) Actor.

3. Ye Wenjie discovers in college that it is useless to excel at theory without what in astrophysics?
(a) Historical understanding.
(b) An understanding of ratios.
(c) Existential understanding.
(d) Experimental practice.

4. What was the profession held by Hai Mo?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Screenwriter and novelist.
(c) Newspaper reporter.
(d) Chemist.

5. Where does Ye Wenjie awaken in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?
(a) At the school.
(b) On a helicopter.
(c) Inside the Red Coast Base.
(d) At her father's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the base chief engineer who introduces himself to Ye Wenjie in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?

2. Who is the female military representative from the Intermediate People's Court that visits Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

3. What types of centers does Captain Shi Qiang describe all around the world and working together in Chapter 10, "Da Shi"?

4. What field studies celestial objects at radio frequencies?

5. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1, "The Madness Years": "Their red flags fluttered restlessly around the brigade building like flames yearning for firewood"?

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