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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 does Yuan burn before the soldiers come to raid the houses?
(a) A childhood momento.
(b) A letter from his father.
(c) A letter from the maid.
(d) A book about the revolutionary cause.

2. What does Yuan do in response to his father arranging a marriage for him?
(a) He flees on horseback.
(b) He convinces his father that it's a bad idea.
(c) He sits with his father and discusses a trip.
(d) He sits outside to think it over.

3. When he's in the countryside, what does Yuan decide to do after he receives news about his father?
(a) He returns to school.
(b) He continues on his journey.
(c) He returns home.
(d) He stays in the countryside.

4. How does Yuan feel about arranged marriage?
(a) He understands it, but is still angry at his father.
(b) He is proud of his father's choice.
(c) He accepts it and becomes excited.
(d) He despises it and vows to never talk to his father again.

5. Which character looks at the rich and fat with disdain?
(a) Yuan.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Ai-lan.
(d) Meng.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the letter Yuan receives from his father say?

2. How do the soldiers know to look for Yuan?

3. What is the occupation of Yuan's father?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the letter from Yuan's father in Chapter 1 say, and what is Yuan's reaction to it?

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

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