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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Geng Yang's real reason for inviting Manna to his room?
(a) To profess his love to her.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To give her a gift.
(d) To sleep with her.

2. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?
(a) Four months.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Eighteen years.

3. What is Lin's observation of how Geng Yang speaks?
(a) Simply.
(b) Egotistical.
(c) Eloquent.
(d) Unrestrained.

4. What do Manna and Liang Meng talk about when they first meet at the hospital?
(a) Lin.
(b) Politics.
(c) The weather.
(d) Grapes.

5. What unnerves Manna about Geng Yang when she sees him at the bus stop?
(a) His clothing.
(b) His flirtatious attitude.
(c) His quietness.
(d) His grin.

6. What does Commissar Wei ask the hospital to recommend for him?
(a) A good medicine for back pain.
(b) An apartment to rent in Muji City.
(c) A nurse or doctor to marry.
(d) A good movie.

7. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?
(a) Becoming seriously ill.
(b) Being sent to a less demanding hospital.
(c) Becoming an old maid.
(d) Getting fired from her job.

8. Who does Lin believe is the key player in making his divorce successful?
(a) Manna.
(b) Ran Su.
(c) Shuyu.
(d) Bensheng.

9. After a chief in the City Administration dies, what does Manna begin to do?
(a) Take care of the chief's wife.
(b) Pressure Lin to divorce his wife.
(c) Pursue a man who will marry her.
(d) Take better care of her health.

10. When Ran Su is cautioning Lin about his relationship with Mann, what does he mean by "abnormal" relationship?
(a) Platonic.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Polygamist.
(d) Abusive.

11. On his first day in Muji City, what is Liang Meng's reason for needing to return home so soon?
(a) He doesn't like the weather.
(b) His daughter is ill.
(c) He has run out of money.
(d) Lin told him to leave.

12. Since Lin thinks that his divorce is unlikely, what does he propose Manna should do?
(a) Find another boyfriend.
(b) Kill his wife.
(c) Wait for him.
(d) Transfer to another hospital.

13. What does Manna compare herself to at the prospect of her engagement to Commissar Wei?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A princess.
(c) A thief.
(d) A flower in bloom.

14. Why does the audience cry during "The Flower Girl"?
(a) It brings back bad memories.
(b) The young girls in the movie are crying.
(c) The move is violent.
(d) The main character dies.

15. What is the reason Manna gives Lin for wanting to sleep with him?
(a) To get him expelled from the army.
(b) To secure their relationship.
(c) To give him a son.
(d) To get attention from other nurses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Lin give Shuyu for wanting a divorce?

2. After Lin's father dies, how do his feelings about his wife and marriage change?

3. What are Lin's conditions on Manna's prospective new fiancé?

4. What is the purpose of the newspaper article about Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?

5. Why is Manna hesitant to pursue sleeping with Lin?

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