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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1—Pages 101-136.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?
(a) To free him from a prearranged marriage.
(b) To protect Yuan.
(c) To keep Ai-lan safe.
(d) To come live with them in the city.

2. What does Yuan burn before the soldiers come to raid the houses?
(a) A letter from his father.
(b) A childhood momento.
(c) A letter from the maid.
(d) A book about the revolutionary cause.

3. What does Yuan use the plot of land for?
(a) A science experiment.
(b) A school project.
(c) He meets there with other revolutionists.
(d) He goes there to write.

4. At the family meeting to discuss the marriage, why do the elders say only very little?
(a) They don't want to offend anybody.
(b) They are not allowed to speak at the meeting.
(c) They are not able to come up with any solution.
(d) They don't care about the problem.

5. What does Yuan notice about the letter his father sends him?
(a) The date it was written on has long passed.
(b) It was written in a hurry with little care put into it.
(c) It doesn't seem like something his father would write.
(d) It is written in his father's own hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ai-lan?

2. What does the letter Yuan receives from his father say?

3. When the soldiers arrive at Yuan's school, what are they searching for?

4. How does Yuan feel about arranged marriage?

5. Who is the maid friends with?

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