A House Divided Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A House Divided Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How long does Yuan plan to spend in America?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Two years.

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

3. What is Yuan still searching for?
(a) His father's acceptance.
(b) True love.
(c) A new home.
(d) Freedom.

4. Why does Ai-lan dance with people she doesn't want to dance with?
(a) She enjoys the company of strangers.
(b) It is forbidden for women to turn down a dance.
(c) She is desperate for a husband.
(d) She doesn't want to be rude.

5. What does Yuan do to get the money to travel to the coastal city?
(a) He gets money from his father.
(b) He sells his horse.
(c) He sells his clothes.
(d) He steals from a beggar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wu Li-yang's occupation?

2. What is Sheng's occupation?

3. Why does Yuan's father claim to have spared the lives of 173 men?

4. How does Yuan feel about his studies?

5. Why does Yuan dislike the 17-year-old daughter of the landlady?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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