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

2. What is the occupation of Yuan's father?
(a) He is a shopkeeper.
(b) He is a writer.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a warlord.

3. What does Yuan do as he watches his father warm his hands by the fire?
(a) He almost reaches out to touch them but decides against it.
(b) He turns away because he can't bear to look at him.
(c) He grasps his father's hands tightly.
(d) He hands his father a note he has written.

4. Who does Yuan find himself holding hands with after they ask him to join the revolutionaries' cause?
(a) Ai-lan.
(b) Ai-lan's mother.
(c) A young woman from the pleasure house.
(d) The maid.

5. What has Wang the Tiger chosen for Yuan?
(a) A new horse.
(b) A new home.
(c) A wife.
(d) A new school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is considered a dangerous one in the city?

2. What do the two women come to tell Yuan about his father?

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

4. Who does not talk when Yuan meets the rest of the family?

5. When he's in the countryside, what does Yuan decide to do after he receives news about his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, why does Yuan feel trapped?

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

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

4. What does Yuan think of the women at the pleasure houses?

5. What does Yuan do while he is in the countryside?

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

7. Why is Yuan so focused in his studies in America?

8. Why does Yuan go to the coastal city to see his sister and her mother?

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

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

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