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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. Why are guards accompanying Yuan on his way back home?
(a) They are trying to protect him.
(b) They think he might try to escape.
(c) They have directions that he must follow.
(d) They are good friends with him.

2. What is the one thing Yuan will miss when he is abroad?
(a) His lady mother.
(b) The plot of land.
(c) The pleasure houses.
(d) Ai-lan.

3. What does Ai-lan point out about Yuan?
(a) That he is very naive.
(b) That he lacks education to work in the city.
(c) That his demeanor is very similar to his father's.
(d) That he is old-fashioned.

4. At what point does Yuan begin looking at women differently?
(a) When he touches hands with the maid.
(b) When he talks to Ai-lan's mother about his father.
(c) When he dances with a woman for the first time.
(d) When he meets the maid.

5. Why doesn't Yuan want to wear his hat when he gets it back from the white man?
(a) The weather is too warm to wear a hat.
(b) The man dropped it on the ground before giving it back.
(c) It still has the other man's smell on it.
(d) He realizes that it isn't his hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do other students claim that Yuan is such a good student?

2. Why does Yuan have trouble finding somebody to rent him a room?

3. How old is Yuan when he arrives in America?

4. How old is Meng?

5. What does Ai-lan say she will teach Yuan to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what way is Yuan changed after the maid touches his hand?

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

9. When the group of farmers crowd Yuan's room, what does the eldest say to him?

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

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