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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Estraven and Genly do when they arrive at the Bay of Guthen?
(a) They abandon the sledge and make up backpacks.
(b) They put the wheels back on the sledge.
(c) They convert the sledge to a boat.
(d) They set off on skis.

2. What happens to Genly during the first week of his arrest?
(a) His passport is returned to him and he is released.
(b) He is hit on by an Orgota in kemmer.
(c) He is placed on trial.
(d) He is drugged and interrogated.

3. During the blizzard, what Earth game does Genly teach Estraven to play?
(a) Go.
(b) Go Fish.
(c) Mah Jongg.
(d) Chess.

4. What happens to Genly shortly after Estraven reappears in Chapter 11 to warn him?
(a) He is arrested and deported to Karhide.
(b) He is arrested and taken to Kundershaden Prison.
(c) He is arrested and sentenced to death.
(d) He is arrested and taken to the Pulefen Commensality Farm.

5. As Chapter 14 opens, what realization has Estraven come to?
(a) He has realized that he can no longer rely on his "friends" Obsle and Yegey.
(b) He realizes that the Sarf was right to have arrested Genly Ai.
(c) He realizes that the only two people in Mishnory he can trust are Obsle and Yegey.
(d) He realizes that he can no longer rely on Tibe.

6. In Chapter 18, Genly and Estraven have gone through much of the provisions they started with. What do we learn that Genly and Estraven are now relying on eating for nourishment?
(a) Pesthry and gichy-michy.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Pesthry and orsh.
(d) Orsh and gichy-michy.

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

8. On what day of their trip do Genly and Estraven eventually arrive in Karhide?
(a) The 100th day.
(b) The 51st day.
(c) The 81st day.
(d) The 18th day.

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

10. As Chapter 15 opens, where do Genly and Estraven decide to hide for the winter?
(a) Gobrin Ice.
(b) Mishnory.
(c) Kerm Ice.
(d) Gethen.

11. By the end of Chapter 16, what has happened to Estraven?
(a) He has gone into kemmer.
(b) He has lost all patience with Genly.
(c) He is starving himself.
(d) He has gone into dothe.

12. What does Chapter 17 say there was in the beginning?
(a) Sun and ice.
(b) The Gobrin Ice.
(c) Nothing--the world was without form and void.
(d) Edondurath.

13. How does Estraven acquire the initial supplies and food for the winter journey?
(a) He steals them in Turuf.
(b) He goes hunting.
(c) He buys them in Turuf.
(d) He acquires them before freeing Genly and hides them for later access.

14. What illegal (according to the Law of Cultural Embargo) skill does Genly teach Estraven?
(a) Interplanetary travel.
(b) How to understand women.
(c) Levitation.
(d) Mind-speech.

15. In Earth years, Genly is younger than 30. How old is he in Winter years?
(a) 120.
(b) Between 150 and 200.
(c) More than 120.
(d) The same age as he is on Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Genly visit at the end of spring?

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

3. In Chapter 20, who is the first off the Star Ship after it lands?

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

5. When Estraven leaves Mishnory under an assumed name and with forged papers, where does he wind up?

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