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

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

3. Why does Yuan decide to stay at the old tenant's home?
(a) He wants to work for them.
(b) They have plenty of food to spare.
(c) It is almost empty.
(d) His father is banned from the area.

4. 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 girls.
(c) They were not able to arrange marriages for them.
(d) They are not healthy.

5. What does Yuan discover in his father's room?
(a) The room is completely empty of all furniture.
(b) His father has left him a large sum of money.
(c) That his father is not there.
(d) His mother is waiting for him there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Yuan plan to spend in America?

2. Why does Yuan dislike being around the poor people?

3. Who is described as having "the strangest shyness toward all females"?

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

5. How does Yuan feel when he wears his new clothes and looks in the mirror?

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