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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is Wang Miao contemplating from the Three Bodies game in the beginning of Chapter 8, "Ye Wenjie"?
(a) "Lost Era."
(b) "Secret Agent X-9."
(c) "Sentient Era."
(d) "Chaotic Era."

2. When was the WMAP satellite launched?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2013.
(d) 1983.

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

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

5. Who holds Ye Wenjie back when she tries to save her father in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) Two janitors.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her mother.

6. What is Ye Zhetai's focus as a professor in the novel?
(a) Poetry.
(b) History.
(c) Literature.
(d) Physics.

7. When did Einstein visit Shanghai, according to the narrative in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1922.

8. Where does Ye Wenjie describe the Chinese Academy of Science's Space Environment Observation Center in Chapter 8, "Ye Wenjie"?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Dongguan.
(c) Urumqi.
(d) Shenzhen.

9. Where is the Saint Joseph's Church that Wang Miao goes to in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?
(a) Dongguan.
(b) Wangfujing.
(c) Urumqi.
(d) Shenzhen.

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

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

12. Who is the director of the Division Political Department that interviews Ye Wenjie in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Director Zhang.
(b) Director Lin.
(c) Director Cheng.
(d) Director Wen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what publication is Bai Mulin a reporter?

2. Ye Wenjie claims that the Red Coast Project failed to establish contact with alien life forms and disbanded after how many years?

3. For how long had the Red Union "been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade" when Chapter 1, "The Madness Years" begins?

4. What satellite is launched at the Red Coast in Chapter 12, "Red Coast II"?

5. Who is described as Ye Wenjie's astrophysics professor at her alma mater in Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV"?

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