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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Sunset for Humanity," Chapters 22-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Captain Shi Qiang tell Wang he believes someone is working behind the scenes to accomplish in Chapter 10, "Da Shi"?
(a) To ruin scientific research.
(b) To accelerate scientific research.
(c) To cause a world war.
(d) To undermine the government.

2. What was Wen Jie's profession?
(a) Poet.
(b) Painter.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Chemist.

3. When did Copernicus live?
(a) 1564-1642.
(b) 1452-1519.
(c) 1473-1543.
(d) 540-500 BC.

4. What word from Chapter 28, "The Second Red Coast Base" means to make an idea or cause widely known?
(a) Promulgate.
(b) Corrugate.
(c) Emigrate.
(d) Emulate.

5. Who is the source of the papers that are presented to Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Wenxue.
(b) Xine.
(c) Shao Lin.
(d) Ruan Wen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ye Wenjie describe having killed two people in the transcript from Chapter 25, "The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining"?

2. For what animal is Mike Evans planting trees when he is encountered by Ye Wenjie in Chapter 27, "Evans"?

3. Ye Wenjie discovers in college that it is useless to excel at theory without what in astrophysics?

4. How many troops does Emperor Qin Shi Huan order to participate in the gate computing system in Chapter 17, "Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy"?

5. What causes the Mount Wilson Observatory to have more natural steady air than any location in North America?

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