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?
Joel Martinsen

Ted Chiang

Ken Liu

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

China

The United States

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?
2018

2020

2016

2014
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

Qiang

Weisi

Miao
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 by her sister, Wenxue, who joined the Red Guard

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed during a struggle session

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's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life
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

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as the Little Red Book
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her relationship with Yang Weining

Her scientific expertise

Her contact with the Trisolarans

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base
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 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

An underground group of intellectuals developed to preserve scientific knowledge during the Cultural Revolution
16 What is Shi Qiang's job?
Police captain

Science fiction author

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Theoretical physicist
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Da Shi

Ding-dong

Smokestack

Qiang the Conqueror
18 What is Wang's first impression of Shi Qiang?
Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center

Wang is jealous of him

Wang wants to get to know him better

Wang despises him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Commander Chang

General Stanton

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?
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

She corrected him at a nuclear reactor in front of his employees, embarrassing him
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
Ye Wenjie

The novel doesn't say

Shen Yufei

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
The wall of her particle reactor

Her forehead

Pig skin

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

Church

Ding Yi's house

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

University professor

Developing nanomaterial

Tracking cosmic background radiation

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