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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2—Pages 137-161.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to watch over Ai-lan?
(a) Ai-lan has angered a neighbor who wants to hurt her.
(b) Ai-lan is sick.
(c) She doesn't approve of the company Ai-lan keeps.
(d) Ai-lan is a poor student.

2. What does the letter Yuan receives from his father say?
(a) That the prearranged marriage is going on as planned.
(b) That he wants to cancel the prearranged marriage.
(c) That his ailments are only getting worse.
(d) That he wants Yuan to come home immediately.

3. How old is Yuan when he arrives in America?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

4. What is Sheng's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Shopkeeper.
(d) Revolutionary.

5. Who does not talk when Yuan meets the rest of the family?
(a) Ai-lan's mother.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Ai-lan.
(d) Meng.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Yuan want to wear his hat when he gets it back from the white man?

3. Why do parents abandon the children that Yuan's "lady mother" runs a home for?

4. What is the occupation of the person Yuan befriends, but keeps a secret?

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

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