The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

Mo Yan
2 Who translated The Three-Body Problem into English?
Ted Chiang

Joel Martinsen

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin
3 In what country was The Three-Body Problem originally published?
Canada

The United States

China

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?
2018

2020

2014

2016
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?
Miao

Cixin

Qiang

Weisi
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?
Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Ye and Wang

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?
He's killed by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed during a struggle session
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 during a struggle session

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 during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons
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?
All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her scientific expertise

Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her relationship with Yang Weining
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 group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?

A military branch of the ETO

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
Theoretical physicist

Science fiction author

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Police captain
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Qiang the Conqueror

Ding-dong

Smokestack

Da Shi
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang despises him

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
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Chief Weining

Commissar Lei

General Stanton

Commander Chang
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?
She corrected him at a nuclear reactor in front of his employees, embarrassing him

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

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

Wang Miao

Ye Zhetai

Ding Yi
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei

Ye Wenjie

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Her forehead

Birch bark

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?
Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

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