The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ted Chiang

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Mo Yan
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?
Japan

China

The United States

Canada
4 In what year was The Three-Body Problem first published?
2008

2012

2000

2004
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2018

2016

2020

2014
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?
Qiang

Miao

Weisi

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

Shi and Wang

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 by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed during a struggle session
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 struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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 contact with the Trisolarans

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her scientific expertise

Her relationship with Yang Weining
14 What is Wang's hobby?
Downhill skiing

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Landscape photography
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?
Science fiction author

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Theoretical physicist

Police captain
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Da Shi

Smokestack

Qiang the Conqueror

Ding-dong
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang is jealous of him

Wang wants to get to know him better

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

Wang despises him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Commissar Lei

Commander Chang

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

Ye Zhetai

Wang Miao

Shi Qiang
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
Shen Yufei

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Ye Wenjie

The novel doesn't say
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Pig skin

The wall of her particle reactor

Her forehead

Birch bark
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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