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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Sunset for Humanity," Chapters 29-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the Mount Wilson Observatory to have more natural steady air than any location in North America?
(a) A dead zone for radio signals.
(b) An inversion layer that traps smog.
(c) A natural wind coverage.
(d) A light refractor around its surface.

2. When was the book Silent Spring published?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1962.

3. When did Aristotle live?
(a) 540-500 BC.
(b) 322-299 BC.
(c) 450-400 BC.
(d) 384-322 BC.

4. What does Ye Wenjie watch from the mountaintop in the end of Chapter 35, "The Ruins"?
(a) The city traffic.
(b) The sunset.
(c) The sunrise.
(d) The ocean waves.

5. What civilization is destroyed in the Three Body game in Chapter 15, "Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day"?
(a) Civilization 193.
(b) Civilization 183.
(c) Civilization 103.
(d) Civilization 83.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does Ye Wenjie confess to having killed two people in the document from Chapter 25, "The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining"?

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

3. When did Leonardo da Vinci live?

4. What has the Great Pyramid been replaced with in the Three Body game in Chapter 19, "Three Body: Einstein, the Pendulum Monument, and the Great Rip"?

5. When does the narrator describe the implementation of the OZMAII plan in Chapter 13, "Red Coast III"?

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