The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Mo Yan

Liu Cixin

Ken Liu

Ted Chiang
2 Who translated The Three-Body Problem into English?

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Joel Martinsen

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

The United States

China

Canada

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

2008

2004

2000

2012
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?

2016

2014

2018

2020
6 The Three-Body Problem was...

The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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?

Miao

Cixin

Weisi

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

Shi and Wang

Ye and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

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

He's killed during a struggle session

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

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

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?

Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her scientific expertise

Her relationship with Yang Weining

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base
14 What is Wang's hobby?

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Landscape photography

Downhill skiing

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

An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution

A military branch of the ETO

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

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?

Police captain

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Theoretical physicist

Science fiction author
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Smokestack

Ding-dong

Da Shi

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

Wang despises him

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
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?

Commander Chang

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining

General Stanton
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

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

She corrected him at a nuclear reactor in front of his employees, embarrassing him

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

He never actually met her, but he saw her once at a worksite and was mesmerized by her
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?

Wang Miao

Shi Qiang

Ye Zhetai

Ding Yi
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

Shen Yufei

The novel doesn't say

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Ye Wenjie
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?

Pig skin

Her forehead

Birch bark

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

Ding Yi's house

Home

Church

His office
25 What is Wang's job?

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

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