The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Mo Yan

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

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

Ted Chiang

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Joel Martinsen
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?

2000

2008

2012

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

2016

2014

2018

2020
6 The Three-Body Problem was...

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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

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?

Qiang

Miao

Cixin

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

Shi and Wang

Ye and Wang

Shi and Ding

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

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
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's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a struggle session

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
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?

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her scientific expertise

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

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Downhill skiing

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A military branch of the ETO

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

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Science fiction author

Police captain
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 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?

General Stanton

Chief Weining

Commander Chang

Commissar Lei
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

She was his coauthor on academic papers during their time 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

He was her professor of applied physics 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?

Ye Wenjie

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?

Birch bark

Pig skin

The wall of her particle reactor

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

Home

Church

His office

Ding Yi's house
25 What is Wang's job?

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Developing nanomaterial

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