The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Liu Cixin

Mo Yan

Ted Chiang

Ken Liu
2 Who translated The Three-Body Problem into English?

Joel Martinsen

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang
3 In what country was The Three-Body Problem originally published?

Canada

Japan

China

The United States
4 In what year was The Three-Body Problem first published?

2012

2008

2004

2000
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?

2020

2016

2018

2014
6 The Three-Body Problem was...

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

The first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel

All of these options are true
7 What is the character Wang's first name?

Cixin

Miao

Weisi

Qiang
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?

Ye and Wang

Shi and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Shi and Ding
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed during a struggle session

He's killed by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as the Little Red Book

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?

Her contact with the Trisolarans

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her scientific expertise

Her relationship with Yang Weining
14 What is Wang's hobby?

Downhill skiing

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Landscape photography

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

A group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A military branch of the ETO

An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?

Police captain

Science fiction author

Theoretical physicist

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Qiang the Conqueror

Smokestack

Ding-dong

Da Shi
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?

Wang wants to get to know him better

Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center

Wang is jealous of him

Wang despises him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?

General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining

Commander Chang
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

She was his coauthor on academic papers during their time at Tsinghua University

He never actually met her, but he saw her once at a worksite and was mesmerized by her

She corrected him at a nuclear reactor in front of his employees, embarrassing him
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?

Shi Qiang

Wang Miao

Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

The novel doesn't say

Ye Wenjie

Shen Yufei
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?

Her forehead

Pig skin

Birch bark

The wall of her particle reactor
24 Where does Wang go after his first meeting at the Battle Command Center?

Home

Church

Ding Yi's house

His office
25 What is Wang's job?

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Developing nanomaterial

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

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