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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2—Pages 199-214.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as having "the strangest shyness toward all females"?
(a) Wang the Tiger.
(b) Ai-lan.
(c) Sheng.
(d) Yuan.

2. Which character looks at the rich and fat with disdain?
(a) Sheng.
(b) Yuan.
(c) Ai-lan.
(d) Meng.

3. Why doesn't Yuan want to wear his hat when he gets it back from the white man?
(a) It still has the other man's smell on it.
(b) The man dropped it on the ground before giving it back.
(c) The weather is too warm to wear a hat.
(d) He realizes that it isn't his hat.

4. How does Yuan travel to the coastal city?
(a) By horse.
(b) He finds a group to travel with.
(c) By train.
(d) On foot.

5. What is the one thing Yuan will miss when he is abroad?
(a) The pleasure houses.
(b) Ai-lan.
(c) His lady mother.
(d) The plot of land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan base most of his opinions of people on?

2. Who says, "idealism and enthusiasm are not the same thing"?

3. How does Yuan feel after thinking about the maid when he should be sleeping?

4. Who does Yuan find himself holding hands with after they ask him to join the revolutionaries' cause?

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

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