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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 is Yuan's favorite subject to learn about?
(a) Math.
(b) Literature.
(c) Nature.
(d) History.
2. How does Yuan feel about his studies?
(a) He thinks it's a waste of time.
(b) He despises studying.
(c) He has trouble learning in his environment.
(d) He enjoys school and learning.
3. When Yuan writes to his father from America, what does he tell him?
(a) That he never wants to return to his homeland.
(b) That he will return to his "lady mother's" house.
(c) That he will return to his father's house.
(d) That he never wants to see him again.
4. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?
(a) Yuan's sister.
(b) Yuan's father.
(c) Ai-lan's mother.
(d) Yuan.
5. Why does Yuan find himself hating tradition?
(a) It stifles creativity.
(b) It is a tool used by his father to manipulate him.
(c) It prevents him in finding true love.
(d) It takes away his freedom.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Yuan's reasons for staying at the home of the old tenants demonstrate?
2. When Yuan attends the secret meeting, how is he regarded by the rest of the members?
3. What word is considered a dangerous one in the city?
4. Why does Yuan decide to stay at the old tenant's home?
5. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Yuan feel when he is told that his father has arranged a marriage for him?
2. Why is Yuan so focused in his studies in America?
3. What is the one thing that does not cut off Yuan from the poor around him?
4. What reason does Yuan give for not being able to join the revolutionaries?
5. Why does Yuan go to the coastal city to see his sister and her mother?
6. When Yuan travels to the earthen home that once belonged to his grandfather, why do the people look at him suspiciously?
7. What reason does Yuan's teacher give for Yuan not being able to give the meaning of his own poem?
8. Why do Sheng and Yuan separate once they arrive in America?
9. How does Sheng represent tradition? How does Meng represent revolution?
10. What does Yuan do while he is in the countryside?
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