The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Liu Cixin

Ken Liu

Mo Yan

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?
Canada

The United States

China

Japan
4 In what year was The Three-Body Problem first published?
2000

2004

2008

2012
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2016

2018

2020

2014
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

Miao

Qiang

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

Shi and Ding

Ye 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 during a struggle session

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed in Tiananmen Square
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?
She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
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 struggle session

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

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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her scientific expertise

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base
14 What is Wang's hobby?
Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Downhill skiing

Landscape photography

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

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

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

Police captain

Science fiction author

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

Qiang the Conqueror

Da Shi

Smokestack
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang wants to get to know him better

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

Wang despises him

Wang is jealous of him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Commander Chang

Commissar Lei

General Stanton

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?
Ding Yi

Shi Qiang

Ye Zhetai

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
Ye Wenjie

Shen Yufei

The novel doesn't say

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base
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?
Ding Yi's house

Home

Church

His office
25 What is Wang's job?
Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

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