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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 does Yuan respond to his father's reaction to his appearance?
(a) He is angry and reacts aggressively.
(b) He is scared and doesn't understand his father's reaction.
(c) He reacts calmly and wants to talk to his father.
(d) He's happy to see his dad despite his unexpected absence.

2. Why does Yuan decide to stay at the old tenant's home?
(a) They have plenty of food to spare.
(b) His father is banned from the area.
(c) It is almost empty.
(d) He wants to work for them.

3. What do the two women come to tell Yuan about his father?
(a) He is getting married.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He has attempted to commit suicide.
(d) He was injured during a fight.

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

5. What causes Yuan to remain solitary when he's in America?
(a) He is suspicious of Americans.
(b) His writing consumes his life.
(c) His lack of communication skills.
(d) His native pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan do to get the money to travel to the coastal city?

2. Who is Ai-lan?

3. What reason does Yuan give to Meng for not joining the cause?

4. What does Yuan do in response to his father arranging a marriage for him?

5. Which character looks at the rich and fat with disdain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Yuan think of the women at the pleasure houses?

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

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

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

10. When Yuan is sitting by his ill father at the fire, what causes Yuan to start to resent him again?

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