The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ted Chiang

Mo Yan

Ken Liu

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

Ken Liu

Joel Martinsen

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

Canada

China

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

2012

2008

2000
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2018

2016

2020

2014
6 The Three-Body Problem was...
The first novel to be banned from all American middle schools

The first Chinese science fiction novel published in the United States

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

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

Qiang

Cixin

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

Shi and Ding

Ye and Wang

Shi and Wang
9 What happens to Ye Wenjie's father?
He's killed in Tiananmen Square

He's killed by Trisolaran sophons

He's killed during a struggle session

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

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her relationship with Yang Weining

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her scientific expertise

Her contact with the Trisolarans
14 What is Wang's hobby?
He has no hobbies; he is obsessed with his work

Discussing complex philosophical concepts with the Frontiers of Science

Landscape photography

Downhill skiing
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?
Science fiction author

Police captain

Theoretical physicist

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

Da Shi

Qiang the Conqueror

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

Wang despises him

Wang wants to get to know him better

Wang is jealous of him
19 Who runs the Battle Command Center?
Commander Chang

Commissar Lei

Chief Weining

General Stanton
20 How does Wang know Yang Dong?
He never actually met her, but he saw her once at a worksite and was mesmerized by her

He was her professor of applied physics at Tsinghua University

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
21 Who was Yang Dong's boyfriend?
Wang Miao

Ding Yi

Ye Zhetai

Shi Qiang
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
The novel doesn't say

Ye Wenjie

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Shen Yufei
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Birch bark

Pig skin

The wall of her particle reactor

Her forehead
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?
Communicating with the Trisolarans

University professor

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Developing nanomaterial

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