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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, On Time and Darkness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the price Genly is charged for an audience with the Foretellers?
(a) Two rubies.
(b) One ruby.
(c) Three rubies.
(d) As a First Mobile, he isn't charged anything.

2. What is the result of Genly's meeting with the king?
(a) The meeting is successful; Karhide becomes part of the Ekumen.
(b) The king is so offended by Genly's pictures that he has Genly imprisoned.
(c) The meeting is not successful; the king is not interested in Karhide becoming part of the Ekumen.
(d) It is a good "get to know you" meeting; the king is interested in learning more about the Ekumen and schedules a second discussion with Genly.

3. Is it possible for a Gethenian to change gender from one period of sexual activity to another?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) The book does not specify.
(d) No.

4. Where does Genly think about going next, and where does he actually decide to go?
(a) The Fastnesses/Orgoreyn.
(b) The Gobrin Ice/the Pering Ice.
(c) Orgoreyn/the Fastnesses.
(d) The Pering Ice/the Gobrin Ice.

5. What is the length of the Gethenians' sexual cycle?
(a) It's impossible to tell. After all, they're androgynous.
(b) 21 to 22 days.
(c) 28 to 30 days.
(d) 26 to 28 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Ekumen send only one representative to Karhide?

2. Two nights and one day after Estraven and Stokven become kemmers, Estraven is attacked by a party from Stok and presumed killed. Stokven tells his countrymen what to do with Estraven's body. Did they follow Stokven's orders?

3. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?

4. What is the monogamous partnership between two Gethenians called?

5. What message does the king ask Genly to send to Hain using his communicator?

(see the answer key)

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