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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Yuan ask to reveal the truth about the bad news in his hometown?
(a) Sheng.
(b) Ai-lan.
(c) Wang the Tiger.
(d) Meng.

3. 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) Ai-lan.
(d) His uncle.

4. What allows Yuan to look past the fact that his teacher's family is American?
(a) They are kind to him.
(b) His teacher reminds him of his father.
(c) They have a lot of wealth.
(d) They have ancestors from his homeland.

5. What does the teacher's daughter do when they attend church?
(a) She spends more time socializing than worshipping.
(b) She prays enthusiastically.
(c) She is more interested in showing off her clothes than worshipping.
(d) She coldly stares straight ahead.

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

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

8. Which of the following does Yuan bring back with him from America?
(a) Wheat seeds.
(b) A new watch.
(c) New clothing.
(d) Souvenirs for his family.

9. What is the bad news that Yuan receives about his hometown?
(a) His father has died.
(b) Ai-lan has died.
(c) Revolutionaries have attacked white men.
(d) Revolutionaries have given up on their cause.

10. Who is Mei-ling?
(a) The maid's real name.
(b) Yuan's classmate.
(c) The teacher's daughter.
(d) The young girl Ai-lan's mother takes in.

11. Which character has become a captain in the new army?
(a) Yuan's father.
(b) Meng.
(c) Yuan's uncle.
(d) Sheng.

12. Why does Yuan feel as if he should no longer live with his lady mother?
(a) Mei-ling turned down his proposal.
(b) His lady mother wants him to find a job.
(c) Ai-lan is moving back in.
(d) His father might find him.

13. Who is Yuan nervous about meeting when he arrives at the capital city?
(a) Wang the Tiger.
(b) The maid.
(c) His former tutor.
(d) The priest from America.

14. When Yuan wakes up on the train, what does he find the train has stopped next to?
(a) A river.
(b) A dead horse.
(c) A poverty-stricken piece of land.
(d) A mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan notice about the way he is treated after he returns from America?

2. Yuan befriends a teacher in America who has a daughter. What is the daughter's name?

3. Who does Yuan want to marry?

4. Why does Yuan suddenly despise the common men and beggars?

5. Who meets Yuan when he debarks from the train?

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