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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. How does Yuan feel after thinking about the maid when he should be sleeping?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Ashamed.

2. What does Yuan do as he watches his father warm his hands by the fire?
(a) He hands his father a note he has written.
(b) He grasps his father's hands tightly.
(c) He almost reaches out to touch them but decides against it.
(d) He turns away because he can't bear to look at him.

3. What does Yuan immediately become aware of when he enters the coastal city?
(a) The streets are filthy.
(b) That people are very suspicious of his prescence.
(c) The differences between rich and poor.
(d) The women are treated different.

4. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?
(a) Ai-lan's mother.
(b) Yuan's father.
(c) Yuan's sister.
(d) Yuan.

5. What makes Yuan feel trapped?
(a) His lack of education.
(b) His father's controlling love.
(c) His mother's lack of confidence in him.
(d) His lack of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Wang the Landlord?

2. Instead of joining the protests and other revolutionist activities, what does Yuan do?

3. What does the maid do in response to Yuan's traditional behavior, such as bowing?

4. Who built the earthen house that Yuan stays?

5. What does Yuan do to get the money to travel to the coastal city?

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