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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Yuan envious of Sheng?
(a) Sheng is often praised for his writing skills.
(b) Yuan's family praises Sheng more often.
(c) Sheng is a better dancer.
(d) Sheng has better robes than Yuan.

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

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

5. Who is described as having "the strangest shyness toward all females"?
(a) Wang the Tiger.
(b) Ai-lan.
(c) Sheng.
(d) Yuan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan do as he watches his father warm his hands by the fire?

2. What is Yuan still searching for?

3. What is the one thing Yuan will miss when he is abroad?

4. Who is the maid friends with?

5. Why does Ai-lan dance with people she doesn't want to dance with?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Yuan is sitting by his ill father at the fire, what causes Yuan to start to resent him again?

2. What does Yuan do when he sees the poor people outside the pleasure house? What does he think of the poor?

3. When Yuan travels to the earthen home that once belonged to his grandfather, why do the people look at him suspiciously?

4. After he finds out his father is sick, why do the guards accompany Yuan back to his father's home?

5. Why does Yuan finally decide to learn to dance at the pleasure houses?

6. How does Yuan try to run away from himself?

7. What is the one thing that does not cut off Yuan from the poor around him?

8. Why is Yuan so proud to call Ai-lan's mother his own mother?

9. How does Sheng represent tradition? How does Meng represent revolution?

10. When Yuan befriends the farmer who teaches him to use the hoe, why does he keep the relationship a secret?

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