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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 Mei-ling do when Yuan writes to her that he still loves her and will wait for her?
(a) She does not respond.
(b) She writes that she is still considering it.
(c) She tells him she will never marry him.
(d) She finally agrees to marry him.

2. Who says, "they feel because you are what you are, how glorious to win you to their cause "?
(a) Yuan.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Mary.
(d) Yuan's teacher.

3. Who is Mei-ling?
(a) The teacher's daughter.
(b) Yuan's classmate.
(c) The young girl Ai-lan's mother takes in.
(d) The maid's real name.

4. What is the bad news that Yuan receives about his hometown?
(a) Revolutionaries have attacked white men.
(b) Revolutionaries have given up on their cause.
(c) Ai-lan has died.
(d) His father has died.

5. Who invites Yuan to come work in the new capital city?
(a) Wang the Merchant.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Wang the Tiger.
(d) Meng.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan take his students outdoors to do?

2. What has happened to Yuan's plot of land?

3. Why does Yuan suddenly despise the common men and beggars?

4. To whom does Yuan's father owe a lot of money to?

5. What does Wu do when a beggar reaches out to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Mary's description, is Yuan enthusiastic or idealistic?

2. What reason does Mei-ling give for turning down Yuan's marriage proposal?

3. Does Yuan keep his hopes up about Mei-ling changing her mind about his proposal? Why or why not?

4. Why is Yuan embarrassed by the Chinese brothers who put on a comedy act at the school?

5. What is Yuan shocked by as he debarks from the train and rides with Meng through the city?

6. Why does Mary's father claim that Yuan and Mary are alike?

7. What is the bad news that Mary's family delivers to Yuan?

8. What evidence of social change does Yuan experience on the boat on the way back to China?

9. When Yuan is on the train to visit his father, what kind of people does he notice sitting around him?

10. Why does Yuan accept Meng's proposal to come work in the new capital city?

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