The Three-Body Problem Quizzes

The Three-Body Problem Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Three-Body Problem?
Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Mo Yan

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

Ken Liu

Liu Cixin

Joel Martinsen
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?
2000

2008

2012

2004
5 In what year was The Three-Body Problem published in English?
2014

2016

2018

2020
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?
Cixin

Miao

Weisi

Qiang
8 Who are the protagonists of The Three-Body Problem?
Shi and Ding

Ye and Wang

Commissar Lei and Chief Weining

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

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
10 What happens to Ye Wenjie's sister?
She survives the Cultural Revolution and has a successful life

She's killed by Trisolaran sophons

She's killed during a fight between Red Guard factions

She's killed during a struggle session
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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
13 Why is Ye Wenjie taken to Red Coast Base?
Her contact with the Trisolarans

Her scientific expertise

All political enemies are taken to Red Coast Base

Her relationship with Yang Weining
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

Downhill skiing

Landscape photography
15 What is the Frontiers of Science?
A military branch of the ETO

A class Ye Wenjie teaches at Tsinghua University

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

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

Theoretical physicist

None; Shi Qiang is a drifter

Science fiction author
17 What is Shi Qiang's nickname?
Ding-dong

Qiang the Conqueror

Smokestack

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

Wang thinks Shi is trying too hard to impress the Battle Command Center

Wang is jealous of him

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

General Stanton

Chief Weining

Commissar Lei
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 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

Shi Qiang

Ye Zhetai

Wang Miao
22 Who was Yang Dong's mother?
The novel doesn't say

An unnamed woman at Red Coast Base

Shen Yufei

Ye Wenjie
23 What did Yang Dong write her suicide note on?
Pig skin

The wall of her particle reactor

Birch bark

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

His office

Ding Yi's house

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

Tracking cosmic background radiation

Developing nanomaterial

University professor

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