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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Between Drummer and Dremegole.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Estraven receives money from Genly, where does he find work?
(a) Estraven takes a job in a plastics factory.
(b) Estraven doesn't have a job.
(c) Estraven finds work with the government.
(d) Estraven goes back to work in the icehouse, packing fish.

2. What do the Investigator's field notes say about being a First Mobile on Winter?
(a) First Mobiles must have low self-esteem, because anything else is seen as arrogance.
(b) First Mobiles must be self-assured, because their pride will be tested.
(c) No First Mobile has ever returned from Winter alive.
(d) First Mobiles are accepted as natives.

3. During his stay at the farm where Genly is being held, Estraven goes into a state of increased strength called:
(a) Starvation.
(b) Dothe.
(c) Kemmer.
(d) Insanity.

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

5. How long does a journey from Gethen to the Prime World, Hain, take?
(a) 67 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 76 years.
(d) 670 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Genly Ai's mission?

2. How does Genly Ai spend the summer?

3. Which picture offends the king when Genly shows it to him?

4. After Genly comes to live in Mishnory, what does Estraven find strange about how the local government is handling the presence of a First Mobile in their town?

5. Why must Estraven escape on foot?

(see the answer key)

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