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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Yuan have romantic feelings towards Mary?
(a) She is not attractive enough.
(b) She is not as educated as he is.
(c) She is not the same race as he is.
(d) She is disrespectful toward her parents.

2. Who invites Yuan to come work in the new capital city?
(a) Meng.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Wang the Tiger.
(d) Wang the Merchant.

3. Why is Yuan proud of Ai-lan?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her education.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her betrothed.

4. Who has killed the wife of Wang the Merchant?
(a) Wang the Tiger.
(b) A local bandit.
(c) Meng.
(d) Yuan.

5. Who does Yuan want to say good-bye to more than anybody else when he leaves to go to the Capital city?
(a) Mei-ling.
(b) His lady mother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) Ai-lan.

6. Why is Yuan so interested in his teacher's daughter?
(a) She is interested in Yuan's homeland.
(b) She is well-educated.
(c) He thinks his father would approve of her.
(d) She reminds him of Ai-lan.

7. What field is Mei-ling studying?
(a) Writing.
(b) Military.
(c) Business.
(d) Medicine.

8. What social change has occurred since Yuan left for the United States?
(a) There are no more poor people.
(b) Women can go to school.
(c) People no longer abandon their female children.
(d) Women are not forced to marry.

9. What does Yuan try to convince Mary about those from his homeland?
(a) They do not suffer from poverty.
(b) They are morally superior to Americans.
(c) They have come up with the solution to all humanity's problems.
(d) They are more respectful towards others.

10. Who says, "they feel because you are what you are, how glorious to win you to their cause "?
(a) Yuan's teacher.
(b) Yuan.
(c) Sheng.
(d) Mary.

11. After Ai-lan's wedding, what is Yuan ready to do?
(a) Get married and start a family.
(b) Go back to America.
(c) See his father.
(d) Get a job.

12. Who does Yuan describe as having the loudest laughter of everybody?
(a) Mary.
(b) The landlady's daughter.
(c) The landlady.
(d) Ai-lan.

13. What does Yuan take his students outdoors to do?
(a) Visit the poor.
(b) Study the capital's social changes.
(c) Farm.
(d) Beg for money.

14. What does Yuan reject about Mary?
(a) Her naivety about China.
(b) Her race.
(c) Her lack of faith.
(d) Her lack of education.

15. What makes Yuan's teacher say that he is just like Mary?
(a) His writing talent.
(b) His longing for a father figure.
(c) His love of China.
(d) His rejection of Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Yuan get into a dispute with on the train?

2. How does Yuan's class first respond to being taken outdoors?

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

4. What does Yuan's uncle say about Sheng?

5. What is one thing that Yuan likes about Mei-ling?

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