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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 is Yuan afraid of while he is living with Ai-lan and her mother?
(a) That Ai-lan is going to deceive him.
(b) That his father will try to kill him.
(c) That his father will send soldiers to bring him back home.
(d) That his father will die without forgiving him.

2. What does Yuan do in response to his father arranging a marriage for him?
(a) He sits with his father and discusses a trip.
(b) He convinces his father that it's a bad idea.
(c) He flees on horseback.
(d) He sits outside to think it over.

3. Why does Yuan dislike being around the poor people?
(a) They ask him for money.
(b) They smell bad.
(c) They grab him.
(d) They cannot read.

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

5. What does Ai-lan say she will teach Yuan to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Read.
(c) Be independent.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yuan's inner struggle?

2. What does Yuan notice about the letter his father sends him?

3. What does Ai-lan point out about Yuan?

4. What does Yuan think of the poor people in the city?

5. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?

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