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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Genly and other prisoners are taken from their first detention facility, what is their destination?
(a) Kundershaden Prison.
(b) The Gobrin Ice.
(c) A Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley.
(d) The Pulefen Commensality Third Voluntary Farm.

2. After Genly is captured and imprisoned in a work camp, what happens to him every five days and what is the consequence?
(a) He is drugged and interrogated; he eventually becomes seriously ill because of it.
(b) He is physically tortured; he eventually becomes seriously ill because of it.
(c) He is drugged and interrogated; he eventually dies because of it.
(d) He is physically tortured; he eventually dies because of it.

3. What does Genly do in Chapter 19 that he would not allow himself to do in Chapter 16?
(a) Genly breaks down and cries.
(b) Genly has sex with Estraven.
(c) Genly allows himself to trust Estraven.
(d) Genly stops and asks for directions.

4. Did Genly accomplish, in the end, his mission to incorporate Winter into the Ekumen, according to Chapter 20?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) It is unclear whether or not he did.
(d) Negotiations were still ongoing as of the end of the book. We will never know.

5. What is the name of the Orgota religion?
(a) Orgoreyn.
(b) Handdara.
(c) Tuhulme.
(d) Yomesh.

6. Around the time of the earthquake, what does Estraven notice that Genly is repressing himself from doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Crying.
(c) Urinating.
(d) Laughing.

7. How long ago did the High Priest compose the sayings in Chapter 12?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) 900 years.
(c) 600 years.
(d) 9 years.

8. After Genly's meeting with Agraven, where is the Star Ship given clearance to land?
(a) Gobrin Ice.
(b) The Corner Red Dwelling.
(c) The Round-Tower Dwelling.
(d) Athten Fen.

9. According to the Orgota creation myth, how many men were created?
(a) 2, one male and one female.
(b) 39.
(c) 42.
(d) 93.

10. How many of the sleepers did Edondurath kill after he woke up?
(a) 36.
(b) 63.
(c) None; he was the only one.
(d) 90.

11. What happens during Estraven and Genly's descent of Mount Dremegole?
(a) A wheel gets stuck and the axle bends.
(b) Estraven slips on a patch of ice.
(c) Genly twists his ankle.
(d) The sledge tips and they lose sixty pounds of food.

12. 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?
(a) He finds it strange that Genly is being talked about in the media as if he were a celebrity.
(b) He finds it strange that Tibe's men didn't somehow follow Genly to Mishnory.
(c) He finds it strange that all information pertaining to Genly is censored by the Sarf.
(d) He finds it strange that his association with Genly hasn't cost him his job.

13. After Estraven's death at the end of Chapter 19, what does Chapter 20 tell us happens to Genly?
(a) He is taken back to Karhide and imprisoned.
(b) He is taken back to Karhide and executed.
(c) He is imprisoned in Sassinoth.
(d) He is executed in Sassinoth.

14. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?
(a) The Weaver Orden.
(b) Heo Lang Hew.
(c) Ashe, Estraven's former kemmering.
(d) Esvans Harth ir rem Estraven, Estraven's father, and Arek, Estraven's older brother.

15. What role does Estraven tell Genly that King Argaven will be able to play with Orgota once he receives word of Genly's capture?
(a) Kemmer.
(b) Foreteller.
(c) Shifgrethor.
(d) First Mobile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Edondurath's house made from?

2. During the blizzard, what Earth game does Genly teach Estraven to play?

3. On what day of their trip do Genly and Estraven eventually arrive in Karhide?

4. After Estraven receives money from Genly, where does he find work?

5. Why, after Estraven's successful pesthry hunt, does it become more difficult for him and Genly to travel for the next several days?

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