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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1—Pages 27-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Yuan still searching for?
(a) True love.
(b) Freedom.
(c) His father's acceptance.
(d) A new home.

2. What does Ai-lan point out about Yuan?
(a) That he is old-fashioned.
(b) That he is very naive.
(c) That he lacks education to work in the city.
(d) That his demeanor is very similar to his father's.

3. What do Yuan's reasons for staying at the home of the old tenants demonstrate?
(a) That he always follows his mother's advice.
(b) That he is willing to work hard to make a living.
(c) That he has a lot to gain from the wisdom of the old tenants.
(d) That he is like his father in reasoning.

4. What is the occupation of Yuan's father?
(a) He is a teacher.
(b) He is a warlord.
(c) He is a shopkeeper.
(d) He is a writer.

5. Why does Yuan's father claim to have spared the lives of 173 men?
(a) For Yuan's sake.
(b) He did not have sufficient time to kill them.
(c) He lacked the manpower to kill all the men.
(d) Yuan's mother asked him to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ai-lan?

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

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

4. What does Yuan do in response to his father arranging a marriage for him?

5. What emotions are on the faces of the villagers as Yuan is leaving?

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