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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: "Three Body," Chapters 15-20 and Part III: "Sunset for Humanity," Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the computer systems called that Ye Wenjie uses to keep an eye on enemy spacecraft and operations in Chapter 12, "Red Coast II"?
(a) AMTRON.
(b) FORTRAN.
(c) YUTRON.
(d) MITRON.

2. When did the name "three-body problem" begin to be commonly used?
(a) The 1740s.
(b) The 1620s.
(c) THe 1820s.
(d) The 1550s.

3. Who is attempting to break up the dual when Wang enters the Three Body game in Chapter 17, "Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy"?
(a) John Harrison.
(b) Von Neumann.
(c) Xu Bingbing.
(d) Wenxue.

4. Ye Wenjie discovers in college that it is useless to excel at theory without what in astrophysics?
(a) Experimental practice.
(b) Existential understanding.
(c) An understanding of ratios.
(d) Historical understanding.

5. For what publication is Bai Mulin a reporter?
(a) The Guangming Daily.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Great Production News.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, according to the narrator in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

2. At whose office does Wang Miao meet the computer specialist from the Information Security Division and Shen Yufei's husband in Chapter 16, "The Three Body Problem"?

3. When did Leonardo da Vinci live?

4. Where does Ye Wenjie awaken in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?

5. When was the book Silent Spring published?

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