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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "SETI" refer to in the narrative?
(a) Standard Experimental Technology Intelligence.
(b) Social Experiment for Terrestrial Intelligence.
(c) The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
(d) Secure External Technological Intelligence.

2. What was Wen Jie's profession?
(a) Chemist.
(b) Sculptor.
(c) Painter.
(d) Poet.

3. Who was killed along with Ye Wenjie's husband due to an accident at the base, according to the narrative in Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV"?
(a) Director Zhang.
(b) Cheng Lihua.
(c) Bai Mulin.
(d) Lei Zhicheng.

4. What scientific paper is presented to Ye Wenjie as one that she wrote in 1966 in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?
(a) "Ergodic-nonergodic Transition in Tapped Granular Systems: The Role of Persistent Conacts."
(b) "Focus Series on Density Matrix Reformalization."
(c) "Fluctuation-induced Transport, from the Very Small to the Very Large Scales."
(d) "The Possible Existence of Phase Boundaries Within the Solar Radiation Zone and Their Reflective Characteristics."

5. What does "NATO" stand for?
(a) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) The Nuclear Alternatives Testing Organization.
(c) The National Astrophysics Treaty Organization.
(d) The National Academy for Technological Order.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed in the game when Wang returns to it in Chapter 11, "Three Body: Mozi and Fiery Flames"?

2. Who is Ye Zhetai's wife in the narrative?

3. What is the central focus of the book Silent Spring?

4. What year is established in China in the opening of Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

5. At the National Astronomical Center at the Space Observation Center, Sha Ruishan examines data from three satellites. When was the COBE launched, according to the narrator in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subjects does Ye Wenjie study in Chapter 12, "Red Coast II"? Why?

2. What satellites are described in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?

3. What setting is described when Wang logs onto the Three Body game in Chapter 11, "Three Body: Mozi and Fiery Flames"?

4. Where is Ye Wenjie taken by helicopter in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"? Why?

5. Why does Wang Miao visit Ye Wenjie's home in Chapter 8, “Ye Wenjie”?

6. What does Ye Wenjie remark about potential alien contact in Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV"?

7. What is the "microwave background" and how is it described in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?

8. What setting is established in Chapter 4, “The Frontiers of Science"? How much time has passed as Part II: "Three-Body" begins?

9. When did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution take place? Why is it important in The Three-Body Problem?

10. How does Bai Mulin betray Ye Wenjie? Why does he betray her?

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