The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Liu Cixin

Mo Yan

Ken Liu

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

Joel Martinsen

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

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

The United States

Canada

China

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

2012

2008

2004

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

2016

2014

2018

2020
6 The Three-Body Problem was...

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

The first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel

The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

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

Cixin

Qiang

Miao

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

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Ye and Wang

Shi and Wang

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

He's killed during a struggle session

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

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

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session

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

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
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

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

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

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

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Downhill skiing

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A military branch of the ETO

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

An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?

Theoretical physicist

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Science fiction author

Police captain
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Qiang the Conqueror

Da Shi

Smokestack

Ding-dong
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 is jealous of him

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

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining

General Stanton

Commander Chang
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

Ye Zhetai

Ding Yi

Shi Qiang
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

Shen Yufei

The novel doesn't say

Ye Wenjie

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

Birch bark

The wall of her particle reactor

Her forehead

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

Ding Yi's house

Home

His office

Church
25 What is Wang's job?

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Communicating with the Trisolarans

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

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