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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1—Pages 46-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Meng's occupation?
(a) Warlord.
(b) Shopkeeper.
(c) Revolutionary
(d) Poet.

2. What does Yuan immediately become aware of when he enters the coastal city?
(a) The differences between rich and poor.
(b) The streets are filthy.
(c) The women are treated different.
(d) That people are very suspicious of his prescence.

3. What does Yuan notice about his "lady mother" when they eat dinner?
(a) She is timid and seems to fear speaking up.
(b) She likes to talk about the work the revolutionaries are doing.
(c) She can keep Ai-lan quiet without saying a word.
(d) She has very few table manners.

4. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?
(a) Yuan.
(b) Yuan's sister.
(c) Ai-lan's mother.
(d) Yuan's father.

5. What do the two women come to tell Yuan about his father?
(a) He was injured during a fight.
(b) He is getting married.
(c) He has attempted to commit suicide.
(d) He is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yuan still searching for?

2. What does Ai-lan say she will teach Yuan to do?

3. What does Yuan's "mother" think he should do about his father?

4. When Yuan is alone with the old tenants, why are they suspicious of his motives?

5. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?

(see the answer key)

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