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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Genly speaks before the Thirty-Three?
(a) Genly is deported by the Thirty-Three.
(b) Obsle becomes convinced that Genly is a good person.
(c) News of Genly finally became public knowledge in Orgoreyn.
(d) Obsle becomes afraid of him and cancels the reception that was scheduled for him.

2. What is Edondurath's house made from?
(a) Bricks.
(b) The corpses of the others he had killed.
(c) Snow and ice.
(d) Sticks and hay.

3. What does Estraven do with the letter he writes to his son, and why?
(a) He sends it because he misses his son.
(b) He doesn't send it because he disowned his son.
(c) He doesn't send it because it would condemn his son.
(d) He hand delivers it to his son.

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

5. At one point, Genly finds himself alone in the dormitory with a dying inmate named Asra. What does Genly tell Asra about he people on his (Genly's) planet?
(a) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are in kemmer all the time.
(b) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are all blond-haired and blue-eyed.
(c) He tells Asra that the people on his planet are not androgynous.
(d) He tells Asra that the people on his planet never go into kemmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Estraven finishes calculating the rations for their winter journey, what parameters does he establish?

2. According to the Orgota creation myth, what will happen to the world at its end?

3. As of the beginning of Chapter 18, for how many days had Genly and Estraven been traveling?

4. Who is known as the Center of Time?

5. In the beginning, how were the hills and valleys made?

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