The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ted Chiang

Ken Liu

Mo Yan

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

Liu Cixin

Joel Martinsen

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

The United States

Japan

Canada
4 In what year was The Three-Body Problem first published?
2004

2008

2012

2000
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2020

2014

2016

2018
6 The Three-Body Problem was...
The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

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

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

All of these options are true
7 What is the character Wang's first name?
Cixin

Qiang

Weisi

Miao
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?
Ye and Wang

Shi and Wang

Shi and Ding

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 by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed during a struggle session
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?
She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?
She's killed during a struggle session

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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her scientific expertise

Her relationship with Yang Weining

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

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution

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?
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?
Ding-dong

Qiang the Conqueror

Smokestack

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

Wang is jealous of him

Wang despises him

Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Commander Chang

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

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
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Ding Yi

Wang Miao

Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang
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

Her forehead

The wall of her particle reactor

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

Ding Yi's house

His office

Church
25 What is Wang's job?
Communicating with the Trisolarans

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Developing nanomaterial

University professor

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