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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people normally have to spend time on the Segvina Island?
(a) Mentally ill people
(b) Murderers and rapists
(c) Corrupt politicians
(d) Scientists

2. What does insurrection day commemorate?
(a) The first Odonian uprising on Urras
(b) Their president's birthday
(c) The founding of the Anarres constitution
(d) Anarres's independence from Urras

3. Who volunteers to spend time in the prison?
(a) Shevek
(b) Rulag
(c) Palat
(d) Kadagv

4. What does Palat tell the women at the nursery?
(a) That he is terminally ill
(b) That he is in love with them all
(c) That Shevek has to stay full-time
(d) That he is leaving his family

5. What is Shevek accused of when he tells a joke in physics class?
(a) Egoizing
(b) Idiocy
(c) Exposing himself
(d) Bad humor

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Urras punish Odo?

2. What happens in the summer?

3. Which character does Bedap say has spent time on Segvina Island Asylum?

4. What does Desar's visit make Sabul realize?

5. With whom does Shedak copulate?

(see the answer key)

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