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

Liu Cixin

Joel Martinsen

Ken Liu
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?
2004

2012

2000

2008
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2020

2014

2016

2018
6 The Three-Body Problem was...
The first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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?
Cixin

Weisi

Miao

Qiang
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 during a struggle session

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed in Tiananmen Square
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?
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
11 What happens to Ye Wenjie's mother?
She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed during a struggle session

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions
12 What book inspires Ye Wenjie's thoughts about humanity?
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as the Little Red Book

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her contact with the Trisolarans

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her scientific expertise
14 What is Wang's hobby?
Landscape photography

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Downhill skiing
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
A military branch of the ETO

An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

A group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Police captain

Science fiction author

Theoretical physicist
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Ding-dong

Smokestack

Qiang the Conqueror

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

Wang despises him

Wang is jealous of him

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

General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Commander Chang
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 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
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Shi Qiang

Ye Zhetai

Wang Miao

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

The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei

Ye Wenjie
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Birch bark

The wall of her particle reactor

Pig skin

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

Home

His office

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

Developing nanomaterial

Communicating with the Trisolarans

Tracking cosmic background radiation

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