A House Divided Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A House Divided Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who built the earthen house that Yuan stays?

2. Why are guards accompanying Yuan on his way back home?

3. What do the two women come to tell Yuan about his father?

4. Who is Wang the Landlord?

5. Who says, "I cannot kill--I am not brave, I know"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yuan seem to despise the American people?

2. Why does Yuan have reservations about joining the revolutionary cause?

3. How does Yuan feel when he is told that his father has arranged a marriage for him?

4. How is danger for the revolutionaries foreshadowed when Yuan, Ai-lan, and the lady mother are on the way to meet Yuan's uncle?

5. How does Yuan try to run away from himself?

6. When Yuan watches Wang the Tiger warm his hands by the fire and sees how frail he looks, how does he feel about him?

7. What does Yuan think of the women at the pleasure houses?

8. Why is Yuan so proud to call Ai-lan's mother his own mother?

9. What does the letter from Yuan's father in Chapter 1 say, and what is Yuan's reaction to it?

10. What does Yuan do when he sees the poor people outside the pleasure house? What does he think of the poor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Yuan's relationship with Mei-ling develop from the time he meets her to the end of the novel? What setbacks does the relationship experience? What about the advances? What can the reader predict for the development of their relationship? Cite at least two examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Yuan's life in China to his life in America. How does Yuan's perception of the events around him affect the way he lives? What is Yuan's quality of life like in each location? Are Yuan's opinions of both America and China accurate? Why or why not? Cite at least five examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

How is freedom elusive to Yuan? How does Yuan constantly search for freedom but fail to find it? Cite at least examples from the novel to prove the argument.

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