The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ted Chiang

Liu Cixin

Mo Yan

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

Ken Liu

Joel Martinsen

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

The United States

Japan

Canada
4 In what year was The Three-Body Problem first published?
2008

2004

2012

2000
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2020

2014

2016

2018
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?
Weisi

Cixin

Qiang

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

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?
He's killed by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed during a struggle session
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 survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a struggle session
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

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 scientific expertise

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her contact with the Trisolarans
14 What is Wang's hobby?
Landscape photography

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Downhill skiing

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
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?

A military branch of the ETO
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
Science fiction author

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Theoretical physicist

Police captain
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 despises him

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

Wang wants to get to know him better

Wang is jealous of him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Commander Chang

Chief Weining
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

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

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Wang Miao

Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

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

Her forehead

Pig skin

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

Church

Home

Ding Yi's house
25 What is Wang's job?
Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

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