The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?

Liu Cixin

Ted Chiang

Ken Liu

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

Liu Cixin

Ken Liu

Ted Chiang

Joel Martinsen
3 In what country was The Three-Body Problem originally published?

China

Canada

Japan

The United States
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?

2018

2020

2016

2014
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?

Miao

Qiang

Cixin

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

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

Shi and Ding

Shi and Wang

Ye and Wang
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?

He's killed during a struggle session

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

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed in Tiananmen Square
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?

She's killed during a struggle session

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
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

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 scientific expertise

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her contact with the Trisolarans
14 What is Wang's hobby?

Downhill skiing

Landscape photography

He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?

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

A military branch of the ETO

A group of intellectuals that come together to ask: What is the limit of science?

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

Theoretical physicist

Science fiction author

Police captain

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?

Qiang the Conqueror

Smokestack

Da Shi

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?

Chief Weining

Commander Chang

Commissar Lei

General Stanton
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?

She corrected him at a nuclear reactor in front of his employees, embarrassing him

She was his coauthor on academic papers during their time at Tsinghua University

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

Wang Miao

Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Shen Yufei

Ye Wenjie

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

The wall of her particle reactor

Her forehead

Birch bark

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

Church

Home

Ding Yi's house

His office
25 What is Wang's job?

Developing nanomaterial

Tracking cosmic background radiation

University professor

Communicating with the Trisolarans

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