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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What takes place between Estraven II and Therem of Stok?
2. What name does Estraven give to the doctor while he is in the hospital?
3. What is the purpose of the parade upon which Chapter 1 opens?
4. Why does Genly return to Erhenrang in Chapter 8 after spending his summer on the Eastern Coast?
5. Two nights and one day after Estraven and Stokven become kemmers, Estraven is attacked by a party from Stok and presumed killed. Stokven tells his countrymen what to do with Estraven's body. Did they follow Stokven's orders?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Herbor, Lord Berosty's kemmering, offer his life for a Foretelling by the Weaver Odren after Berosty locked himself away?
2. What does Estraven do to make Genly angry with him? What is the significance, to Genly, of Estraven's behavior?
3. How does betrayal figure in Chapter 9?
4. In Chapter 16, Genly keeps Estraven from falling during the earthquake and teaches him to play a game. Estraven restores the skin on Genly's face when it becomes frostbitten. What does this show about their relationship?
5. What does Sorve, Estraven's son, ask Genly to tell him about?
6. What does Genly do during the time it takes him to journey to the border between Karhide and Orgoreyn? How is he treated during his travels?
7. What does Chapter 3 reveal to us about Genly's nature?
8. Investigator Oppong makes a comment about First Mobiles, specifically that they must be self-assured because their pride will suffer. How does this comment relate to Genly?
9. What communicates the imagery of facade and veneer in Chapter 10?
10. Who is really in control of Orgoreyn? Is it the Commensals and the Thirty-Three? How does this bode for Genly?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about Estraven's statement regarding patriotism, "What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing." How do the inhabitants of Orgoreyn, and those of Karhide, show their patriotism for their respective countries? Back your statements up with excerpts from the novel, then compare and contrast both Orgoreyn and Karhide's expressions of patriotism with how patriotism is expressed and displayed in your own country. What do you think is good about how Orgoreyn and Karhide express their patriotism that perhaps should be adopted in your country, and what about how patriotism is expressed in your country should be adopted by Orgoreyn and Karhide (if that were possible)?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the different viewpoints concerning good and evil expressed by the Orgota religion, Yomesh, and the Karhidish religion, Handdara, affect how each country treats Genly Ai, at least on the surface.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast kemmering and love, as explained in "The Left Hand of Darkness," with marriage and love in today's society.
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