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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Question of Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What unanswerable question did the Lord of Shorth, according to Goss, force the foretellers to answer?
(a) What is the meaning of life?
(b) Why is the sky blue?
(c) When will I die?
(d) What happens after death?

3. After he loses his registration due to a change in the Alien Registry Law, what happens to Estraven?
(a) He loses his refugee status and is taken back to Gethen to meet his fate.
(b) He is made one of Commensal Yegey's secretaries and regains his registration.
(c) He continues to live in his new home as an illegal alien.
(d) He regains his registration and goes back to his previous job.

4. After leaving Kuseben, where does Estraven first land?
(a) Shelt Port, Orgoreyn.
(b) Mishnory.
(c) The Orgny Fastness.
(d) The Gulf of Charisune.

5. Why does Berosty kill his kemmering after his return from Thangering Fastness and Weaver Odren?
(a) Berosty didn't want his kemmering to approach Weaver Odren, and the kemmering had disobeyed his orders.
(b) He didn't ask *when* Lord Berosty would die, but *how long* Lord Berosty would live.
(c) Berosty discovered his partner had broken kemmering.
(d) The kemmering didn't ask *how long* Lord Berosty would live, but instead *when* Lord Berosty would die.

Short Answer Questions

1. The planet on which Genly Ai is stationed is called 'Gethen' by its inhabitants. What do humans know this planet as?

2. Whose name comes up during Estraven's dinner conversation with Commensals Yegey and Obsle?

3. Do Gethenians become pregnant as males, or as females?

4. What happens to Lord Berosty after his kemmering's death?

5. What is the name of Karhide's king?

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