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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Palat's job?
(a) Engineer
(b) Mathematician
(c) Scientist
(d) Doctor

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

3. Whose grave does Shevek visit?
(a) Sulpher's
(b) Lionel's
(c) Odo's
(d) Patek's

4. What does Shevek find does not exist in Urras to the degree he thought it did?
(a) Love and understanding
(b) Divorce
(c) Waste and poverty
(d) Infidelity

5. Why does Dr. Kimoe throw Shevek's pajamas in the trash?
(a) It costs less than having them cleaned
(b) Shevek has soiled them
(c) He does not like them
(d) He wants to provide Shevek with silk pajamas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Shevek have to go to study?

2. What is the name of Shevek's mother?

3. To whom does Mitis send Shedek's paper?

4. What does Dr. Atro give Shevek as a present?

5. Why does Sabul become angry with Shevek?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why it is important for Shevek and Takver not to "own each other"?

2. What does Shevek believe he is seeing?

3. What negative aspects of Anarrasti society does the meeting highlight?

4. How does Sabul prove Tirin's theory correct?

5. For what is Shevek really fighting?

6. Why do you think Tirrin reacted so badly to the Authorities' not liking his play?

7. In what way does Shevek re-evaluate his purpose on Urras?

8. In what way does Efor stoke Shevek's sense of failure?

9. What does Shevek hope to achieve with his printing syndicate?

10. How does living in Abbeney widen Shevek's limited experience?

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