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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 reason does Yuan give to Meng for not joining the cause?
(a) He has no interest in the cause.
(b) He wants to focus on writing.
(c) His life is too busy.
(d) His father would not approve.

2. Why does Yuan stop riding his horse when he is in the countryside?
(a) It makes people think he is a soldier.
(b) People believe he is mistreating it.
(c) He doesn't know how to take care of a horse.
(d) He sustains an injury and has trouble riding.

3. Why does Yuan's father claim to have spared the lives of 173 men?
(a) He lacked the manpower to kill all the men.
(b) Yuan's mother asked him to.
(c) He did not have sufficient time to kill them.
(d) For Yuan's sake.

4. Why is Yuan careful about what he tells his new friend Jim?
(a) He doesn't want Jim to know he was part of the revolutionary groups.
(b) He is suspicious of Jim's motives.
(c) He wants Jim to think highly of his homeland.
(d) He is ashamed of the life he lived with his father.

5. What does Yuan do to get the money to travel to the coastal city?
(a) He sells his horse.
(b) He gets money from his father.
(c) He steals from a beggar.
(d) He sells his clothes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At the family meeting to discuss the marriage, why do the elders say only very little?

4. Who says, "I cannot kill--I am not brave, I know"?

5. Why does Yuan decide to stay at the old tenant's home?

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