The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Liu Cixin

Mo Yan

Ted Chiang

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

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

Joel Martinsen
3 In what country was The Three-Body Problem originally published?
Canada

The United States

Japan

China
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?
Miao

Qiang

Weisi

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

Ye and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

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 her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons
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 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 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 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

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography

Downhill skiing
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
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?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
Science fiction author

Theoretical physicist

Police captain

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

Qiang the Conqueror

Da Shi

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?
General Stanton

Chief Weining

Commander Chang

Commissar Lei
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?
Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang

Ding Yi

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

The novel doesn't say

Ye Wenjie

Shen Yufei
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
The wall of her particle reactor

Birch bark

Pig skin

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

His office

Ding Yi's house

Church
25 What is Wang's job?
Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

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