The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

Mo Yan
2 Who translated The Three-Body Problem into English?

Joel Martinsen

Liu Cixin

Ken Liu

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

Canada

Japan

The United States

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

2004

2012

2008

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

2016

2020

2014

2018
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?

Miao

Weisi

Cixin

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

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang

Ye and Wang
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

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

He's killed during a struggle session
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 by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as the Little Red Book
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?

Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her scientific expertise

Her contact with the Trisolarans

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

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Downhill skiing

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

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

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Police captain

Theoretical physicist

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

Ding-dong

Da Shi

Qiang the Conqueror

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 despises him

Wang is jealous of him

Wang wants to get to know him better
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?

Commander Chang

Chief Weining

Commissar Lei

General Stanton
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

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

He was her professor of applied physics 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

Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Shen Yufei

The novel doesn't say

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

Pig skin

The wall of her particle reactor

Birch bark

Her forehead
24 Where does Wang go after his first meeting at the Battle Command Center?

His office

Home

Ding Yi's house

Church
25 What is Wang's job?

Developing nanomaterial

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Communicating with the Trisolarans

University professor

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