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?

Joel Martinsen

Ted Chiang

Liu Cixin

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

The United States

China

Canada

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?

2014

2016

2018

2020
6 The Three-Body Problem was...

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

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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?

Miao

Weisi

Qiang

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

Shi and Ding

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Ye and Wang

Shi 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 during a struggle session

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

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
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?

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

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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

Landscape photography

Downhill skiing
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

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

A military branch of the ETO

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

Police captain

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Da Shi

Smokestack

Ding-dong

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

Wang is jealous of him

Wang despises him

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

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

Chief Weining

Commissar Lei

General Stanton

Commander Chang
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

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
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

Ye Wenjie

Shen Yufei

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

Pig skin

Birch bark

The wall of her particle reactor

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

His office

Church

Ding Yi's house

Home
25 What is Wang's job?

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Developing nanomaterial

University professor

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