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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Yuan find himself holding hands with after they ask him to join the revolutionaries' cause?
(a) The maid.
(b) A young woman from the pleasure house.
(c) Ai-lan's mother.
(d) Ai-lan.

2. What is Wu Li-yang's occupation?
(a) Writer.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Begger.
(d) Teacher.

3. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?
(a) To keep Ai-lan safe.
(b) To free him from a prearranged marriage.
(c) To come live with them in the city.
(d) To protect Yuan.

4. What is Yuan afraid of while he is living with Ai-lan and her mother?
(a) That his father will try to kill him.
(b) That his father will die without forgiving him.
(c) That Ai-lan is going to deceive him.
(d) That his father will send soldiers to bring him back home.

5. How does Yuan show a lack of courtesy towards the old tenants, besides inviting himself into their home?
(a) He eats from their sparse food supply.
(b) He invites others into their home.
(c) He takes their one and only horse.
(d) He demands they give him money.

6. 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 women are treated different.
(d) The differences between rich and poor.

7. When Yuan writes to his father from America, what does he tell him?
(a) That he never wants to return to his homeland.
(b) That he will return to his "lady mother's" house.
(c) That he will return to his father's house.
(d) That he never wants to see him again.

8. Who is Wang the Landlord?
(a) One of the tenants Yuan stayed with in the countryside.
(b) Yuan's grandfather.
(c) Yuan's classmate.
(d) Yuan's uncle.

9. Who is the maid friends with?
(a) Ai-lan.
(b) Yuan's uncle.
(c) Sheng.
(d) Meng.

10. What is Yuan's inner struggle?
(a) Being away from his father.
(b) Trying to gain the acceptance of his father.
(c) Finding somebody he loves.
(d) Going against tradition.

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

12. Why does Yuan dislike the 17-year-old daughter of the landlady?
(a) She dresses to gain the attention of men.
(b) She is very loud.
(c) She has not been properly educated.
(d) She is lazy and messy.

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

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

15. What does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to do?
(a) Never bother her again.
(b) Go to school.
(c) Find work as soon as possible.
(d) Marry Ai-lan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do other students claim that Yuan is such a good student?

2. How does Yuan travel to the coastal city?

3. What makes Yuan feel trapped?

4. What is the one thing Yuan will miss when he is abroad?

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

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