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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does Yuan live in the earthen house before his father's people find him?
(a) Six days.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four days.
(d) Two weeks.

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

4. What is the occupation of the person Yuan befriends, but keeps a secret?
(a) Writer.
(b) Shopkeeper.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Revolutionary.

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

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

7. What does Yuan notice about his "lady mother" when they eat dinner?
(a) She can keep Ai-lan quiet without saying a word.
(b) She has very few table manners.
(c) She is timid and seems to fear speaking up.
(d) She likes to talk about the work the revolutionaries are doing.

8. Why does Ai-lan dance with people she doesn't want to dance with?
(a) She is desperate for a husband.
(b) It is forbidden for women to turn down a dance.
(c) She doesn't want to be rude.
(d) She enjoys the company of strangers.

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

10. How does Yuan feel about his studies?
(a) He enjoys school and learning.
(b) He has trouble learning in his environment.
(c) He thinks it's a waste of time.
(d) He despises studying.

11. Why does Yuan enjoy traveling alone?
(a) It gives him time away from his father.
(b) He enjoys sight-seeing.
(c) He is afraid of being controlled.
(d) It refreshes his creativity.

12. 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) He realizes that it isn't his hat.
(c) The man dropped it on the ground before giving it back.
(d) The weather is too warm to wear a hat.

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

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

15. What does Yuan burn before the soldiers come to raid the houses?
(a) A book about the revolutionary cause.
(b) A letter from the maid.
(c) A letter from his father.
(d) A childhood momento.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Yuan to remain solitary when he's in America?

2. What does Yuan think of the poor people in the city?

3. What does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to do?

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

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

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