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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. What causes Jim and Yuan's relationship to end?
(a) Jim begins a relationship with the landlady.
(b) Jim makes rude comments about Yuan's homeland.
(c) Jim insults Yuan's traditional views.
(d) Jim begins a relationship with the landlady's daughter.

2. Who says, "I cannot kill--I am not brave, I know"?
(a) Yuan's father.
(b) Yuan.
(c) Ai-lan.
(d) Ai-lan's mother.

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

4. What does Yuan's "mother" think he should do about his father?
(a) Go home to make sure he is still alive.
(b) Send a guard to his home to kill him.
(c) Forget that he exists and stay in the city.
(d) Contact him to tell him where he is.

5. What does the maid do in response to Yuan's traditional behavior, such as bowing?
(a) She tells him that he should reserve these courtesies for others.
(b) She thanks him for his courtesies.
(c) She reprimands him for it.
(d) She ignores it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Yuan's teacher, why can't Yuan explain the meaning of his poem?

2. How long does Yuan plan to spend in America?

3. What is Yuan's inner struggle?

4. Why does Yuan enjoy traveling alone?

5. What does Yuan burn before the soldiers come to raid the houses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Yuan's reaction to his reflection in the mirror when he first tries on city clothes?

2. What first gives Yuan the courage to stand up against his father about the arranged marriage?

3. What reason does Yuan's teacher give for Yuan not being able to give the meaning of his own poem?

4. How does the maid turn into yet another trap for Yuan's freedom?

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

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

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

8. How is danger for the revolutionaries foreshadowed when Yuan, Ai-lan, and the lady mother are on the way to meet Yuan's uncle?

9. Why does Yuan sometimes make his homeland seem more perfect than it is?

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

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