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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3—Pages 215-244.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuan base most of his opinions of people on?
(a) Their hygiene.
(b) Outward appearance.
(c) Political opinions.
(d) The way they treat their elders.

2. Why does Yuan suddenly despise the common men and beggars?
(a) They do not speak in an educated manner.
(b) They make a bad impression.
(c) They are dirty.
(d) They are rude.

3. Why do parents abandon the children that Yuan's "lady mother" runs a home for?
(a) The families were too poor to take care of them.
(b) They are not healthy.
(c) They were not able to arrange marriages for them.
(d) They are girls.

4. Why doesn't Ai-lan's mother trust Wu?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He lacks proper education.
(c) He doesn't have a steady job.
(d) He is already married.

5. What does the maid write in her letter to Yuan?
(a) That she loves him but doesn't need marriage.
(b) That he must join the revolutionaries.
(c) That she desperately wants to marry him.
(d) That she will meet him at the pleasure house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Yuan give to Meng for not joining the cause?

2. Why is Yuan so interested in his teacher's daughter?

3. What field is Mei-ling studying?

4. Which character says, "who is not selfish? We are all selfish"?

5. What does Wu do when a beggar reaches out to him?

(see the answer key)

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