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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 Gethenians' mating cycle known as?
(a) Kemmer.
(b) Mating cycle.
(c) Libido.
(d) Being in heat.

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

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

4. What does Genly do during his time in Otherhord, while he is waiting to be taken to the Foretellers?
(a) Genly is apprenticed to the blacksmith.
(b) Genly tries to convince Otherhord to become part of the Ekumen.
(c) Genly assists in the communal work of field labor, gardening, woodcutting, and maintenance.
(d) Genly works in the village's general store.

5. Could the Foretellers answer the Lord of Shorth's question? What happened?
(a) Yes; however, the answer was never recorded and is lost to history.
(b) No; they clubbed him to death to get out of answering it.
(c) Yes; they knew the answer, but refused to give it to him.
(d) No; they said no one could possibly know that answer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When baby Therem (also called Estraven) grows up, what happens to him?

3. What is the result of Genly's meeting with the king?

4. Where does the second Estraven in Chapter 9 (Estraven II) wind up after his failed hunting trip?

5. What does Genly ask the Foretellers?

(see the answer key)

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