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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What causes Yuan to remain solitary when he's in America?
(a) His writing consumes his life.
(b) His lack of communication skills.
(c) He is suspicious of Americans.
(d) His native pride.

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

5. How do the soldiers know to look for Yuan?
(a) They overheard Yuan talking about the cause with Meng.
(b) Yuan's teacher turned him in.
(c) The maid gave them his description and name.
(d) Ai-lan accidentally told a soldier.

6. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?
(a) Ai-lan's mother.
(b) Yuan.
(c) Yuan's sister.
(d) Yuan's father.

7. What does Yuan notice about the letter his father sends him?
(a) It doesn't seem like something his father would write.
(b) It was written in a hurry with little care put into it.
(c) The date it was written on has long passed.
(d) It is written in his father's own hand.

8. What does Yuan do in response to his father arranging a marriage for him?
(a) He sits outside to think it over.
(b) He convinces his father that it's a bad idea.
(c) He sits with his father and discusses a trip.
(d) He flees on horseback.

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

10. Who's friend is Wu Li-yang?
(a) Sheng.
(b) Yuan's uncle.
(c) Yuan.
(d) Meng.

11. When he's in the countryside, what does Yuan decide to do after he receives news about his father?
(a) He continues on his journey.
(b) He stays in the countryside.
(c) He returns home.
(d) He returns to school.

12. Who is Ai-lan?
(a) Yuan's mother.
(b) Yuan's grandmother.
(c) Yuan's former classmate.
(d) Yuan's sister.

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

14. What does Yuan use the plot of land for?
(a) A science experiment.
(b) A school project.
(c) He meets there with other revolutionists.
(d) He goes there to write.

15. Why does Yuan have trouble finding somebody to rent him a room?
(a) His clothing.
(b) His race.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His lack of communication skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to watch over Ai-lan?

2. What is Wu Li-yang's occupation?

3. Why does Sheng want go abroad and never return?

4. What causes Yuan to start paying more attention to Ai-lan's female friends then he previously did?

5. Why does Yuan dislike the 17-year-old daughter of the landlady?

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