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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the economic conditions of Getheren's homeland, before and after he takes back his name and shadow?
(a) Prosperity/prosperity.
(b) Poverty/poverty.
(c) Prosperity/poverty.
(d) Poverty/prosperity.

2. Why does Genly wind up on a communal farm?
(a) He is taken as a prisoner of war, and the farm is where all POWs are being held.
(b) He has to flee without his passport when fighting starts between Karhide and Orgoreyn..
(c) He is broke and needs money.
(d) He enjoyed his communal experience in Otherhord so much, he wants to relive it.

3. What, in the report documented in Chapter 7, does the Investigator say is an "appalling experience?"
(a) Watching a Gethenian give birth.
(b) Being judged as a Gethenian.
(c) Having sex with a Gethenian.
(d) Being judged as a human.

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

5. It's been pointed out many times in "The Left Hand of Darkness," thus far, that the Gethenians are androgynous. What does "androgynous" mean?
(a) Male.
(b) No apparent gender--can't tell whether the being is male or female.
(c) Both genders.
(d) Female.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before he dies, what does Estraven II do?

2. During his stay at the farm where Genly is being held, Estraven goes into a state of increased strength called:

3. What is the proclamation made just before Genly is taken in to see the king?

4. What happens to Genly during the first week of his arrest?

5. How does Genly Ai spend the summer?

(see the answer key)

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