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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV" means having mixed feelings about something or someone?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Reticent.
(d) Affluent.

3. What civilization is said to be lost when the scorching sun arrives in the game in Chapter 11, "Three Body: Mozi and Fiery Flames"?
(a) Civilization 242.
(b) Civilization 311.
(c) Civilization 99.
(d) Civilization 141.

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

5. What does "NATO" stand for?
(a) The Nuclear Alternatives Testing Organization.
(b) The National Astrophysics Treaty Organization.
(c) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(d) The National Academy for Technological Order.

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

7. What was Wu Han's profession?
(a) Poet.
(b) Historian.
(c) Painter.
(d) Writer.

8. How has Professor Ruan Wen committed suicide in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) By hanging herself from a closet door.
(b) By driving her car into a tree.
(c) By jumping into a river.
(d) By overdosing on sleeping pills.

9. Who is Ye Wenjie's daughter that Wang comes to see her about in Chapter 8, "Ye Wenjie"?
(a) Wenxue.
(b) Ruan Wen.
(c) Shao Lin.
(d) Yang Dong.

10. 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 two days.
(b) For four days.
(c) For two weeks.
(d) For six days.

11. At the National Astronomical Center at the Space Observation Center, Sha Ruishan examines data from three satellites. When was the COBE launched, according to the narrator in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1989.

12. Where is the space observation center that is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University's Joint Center for Astrophysics?
(a) Wangfujing.
(b) Urumqi.
(c) Dongguan.
(d) Beijing.

13. What does Sha Ruishan give to Wang Miao to enable him to see the microwave background on their research in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?
(a) 2K glasses.
(b) 2G glasses.
(c) 3G glasses.
(d) 3K glasses.

14. When does the narrator describe the implementation of the OZMAII plan in Chapter 13, "Red Coast III"?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1945.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1911.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the book Silent Spring?

2. Who was killed along with Ye Wenjie's husband due to an accident at the base, according to the narrative in Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV"?

3. What was the profession of Fu Lei?

4. When was the WMAP satellite launched?

5. For what publication is Bai Mulin a reporter?

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