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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. When Yuan is alone with the old tenants, why are they suspicious of his motives?
(a) He has stolen from them before.
(b) They think he is a spy.
(c) He has a reputation of being a thief.
(d) He asked to borrow money from them.

2. What is Meng's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Revolutionary
(c) Warlord.
(d) Shopkeeper.

3. What time is it when Yuan arrives at his father's house?
(a) Late night.
(b) Early afternoon.
(c) Evening.
(d) Early morning.

4. Why does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to watch over Ai-lan?
(a) She doesn't approve of the company Ai-lan keeps.
(b) Ai-lan is sick.
(c) Ai-lan is a poor student.
(d) Ai-lan has angered a neighbor who wants to hurt her.

5. Who does not talk when Yuan meets the rest of the family?
(a) Meng.
(b) Ai-lan's mother.
(c) Sheng.
(d) Ai-lan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yuan travel to the coastal city?

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

3. Why do parents abandon the children that Yuan's "lady mother" runs a home for?

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

5. What does Ai-lan point out about Yuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Sheng and Yuan separate once they arrive in America?

2. What reason does Yuan give for not being able to join the revolutionaries?

3. Why does Yuan have reservations about joining the revolutionary cause?

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

5. What finally pushes Yuan to join the cause?

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

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

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

9. How does Yuan feel when he is told that his father has arranged a marriage for him?

10. When Yuan watches Wang the Tiger warm his hands by the fire and sees how frail he looks, how does he feel about him?

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