Visualizing a Curve Drawn on Plane Model of Sphere

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The following is an image from Sue Goodman's $Beginning$ $Topology$.

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My question: if I were to draw this on the space model of the sphere, am I correct that it would section the sphere into equally sized octants, with the center circle in the plane model corresponding to the equator? If not, what $does$ it look like?

Sorry that this is more of a "sanity check" than an actual question, but Goodman provides no solutions for her exercises so I thought I would confer with the Math.SE community instead.