The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ken Liu

Ted Chiang

Mo Yan

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

Ken Liu

Ted Chiang

Joel Martinsen
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

2000

2008

2004
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2016

2018

2014

2020
6 The Three-Body Problem was...
The first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel

The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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

Qiang

Weisi

Miao
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?
Ye and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?
He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed during a struggle session

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?
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

She's killed during a struggle session
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?
She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a struggle session
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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

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

Her scientific expertise

Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her contact with the Trisolarans
14 What is Wang's hobby?
Downhill skiing

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
A military branch of the ETO

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

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
Theoretical physicist

Science fiction author

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Police captain
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Ding-dong

Qiang the Conqueror

Da Shi

Smokestack
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center

Wang wants to get to know him better

Wang despises him

Wang is jealous of him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Commander Chang

General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?
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

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
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Ding Yi

Wang Miao

Shi Qiang

Ye Zhetai
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
Ye Wenjie

The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Her forehead

The wall of her particle reactor

Birch bark

Pig skin
24 Where does Wang go after his first meeting at the Battle Command Center?
Church

His office

Ding Yi's house

Home
25 What is Wang's job?
Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

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