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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 do other students claim that Yuan is such a good student?
(a) He is naturally gifted.
(b) He has no life besides school work.
(c) He has a good tutor.
(d) His race gives him advantages.

2. Why do parents abandon the children that Yuan's "lady mother" runs a home for?
(a) They are girls.
(b) The families were too poor to take care of them.
(c) They were not able to arrange marriages for them.
(d) They are not healthy.

3. What word is considered a dangerous one in the city?
(a) Poet.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Warlord.
(d) Writer.

4. Which of the following is a common theme throughout the first part of the book?
(a) Running from one's self.
(b) Dealing with the absence of a father.
(c) Being scared of war.
(d) Family pride.

5. How old is Meng?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Sixteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?

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

3. Why does Yuan decide to attend church?

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

5. Who built the earthen house that Yuan stays?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What finally pushes Yuan to join the cause?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Yuan seem to despise the American people?

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