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

Ted Chiang

Joel Martinsen

Liu Cixin
3 In what country was The Three-Body Problem originally published?

Canada

China

The United States

Japan
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

2014

2020

2018
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?

Miao

Cixin

Qiang

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

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

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

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed during a struggle session

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

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 survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?

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

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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?

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?

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Downhill skiing

Landscape photography

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

A military branch of the ETO

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

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

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

Police captain

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Science fiction author

Theoretical physicist
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Ding-dong

Smokestack

Da Shi

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

Wang is jealous of him

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

Wang despises him

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

Commissar Lei

Commander Chang

Chief Weining

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?

Shi Qiang

Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

The novel doesn't say

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

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?

Church

His office

Ding Yi's house

Home
25 What is Wang's job?

University professor

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

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