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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Yuan feel about the maid?
(a) He wants to spend more time with her.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) He wants her to meet his father.
(d) He does not love her.

2. Why does Yuan decide to attend church?
(a) He didn't have the freedom to attend in his homeland.
(b) A missionary who spent time in China is speaking.
(c) He feels he needs to repent for joining the cause.
(d) Jim has invited him.

3. What is Sheng's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Shopkeeper.

4. How long does Yuan plan to spend in America?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

5. 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 is lazy and messy.
(d) She has not been properly educated.

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

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

8. Which of the following is a common theme throughout the first part of the book?
(a) Dealing with the absence of a father.
(b) Family pride.
(c) Running from one's self.
(d) Being scared of war.

9. When Yuan attends the secret meeting, how is he regarded by the rest of the members?
(a) They are too busy to notice him.
(b) They purposely ignore him.
(c) They are immediately suspicious of him.
(d) They are immediately happy to have him.

10. What does Ai-lan point out about Yuan?
(a) That he lacks education to work in the city.
(b) That his demeanor is very similar to his father's.
(c) That he is very naive.
(d) That he is old-fashioned.

11. Instead of joining the protests and other revolutionist activities, what does Yuan do?
(a) Studies.
(b) Goes dancing with Ai-lan.
(c) Spends time at the home his "lady mother" runs.
(d) Visits his plot of land.

12. In Chapter 1 when Yuan is laying awake, what is he thinking about?
(a) Deciding what to do about his horse.
(b) Whether or not he should go back home.
(c) Going back to school to complete his education.
(d) Whether or not his father has figured out where he's gone.

13. 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 protect Yuan.
(d) To come live with them in the city.

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

15. How old is Meng?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do parents abandon the children that Yuan's "lady mother" runs a home for?

3. What does Ai-lan say she will teach Yuan to do?

4. How does Yuan travel to the coastal city?

5. What is Yuan still searching for?

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