The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ken Liu

Mo Yan

Liu Cixin

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

Liu Cixin

Ken Liu

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

Canada

Japan

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

2004

2012

2008
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2014

2016

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?
Weisi

Cixin

Qiang

Miao
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?
Shi and Ding

Ye and Wang

Shi and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?
He's killed in Tiananmen Square

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
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 survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

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 by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as the Little Red Book

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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?
Downhill skiing

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
A group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A military branch of the ETO

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

Theoretical physicist

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Science fiction author
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Qiang the Conqueror

Da Shi

Ding-dong

Smokestack
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center

Wang despises him

Wang is jealous of him

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

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining

Commander Chang
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?
He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

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

He never actually met her, but he saw her once at a worksite and was mesmerized by her

She was his coauthor on academic papers during their time at Tsinghua University
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

The wall of her particle reactor

Birch bark

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

Home

Ding Yi's house

Church
25 What is Wang's job?
Tracking cosmic background radiation

Communicating with the Trisolarans

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

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