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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do other students claim that Yuan is such a good student?
2. What is Yuan afraid of while he is living with Ai-lan and her mother?
3. How does Yuan feel about the maid?
4. How long does Yuan live in the earthen house before his father's people find him?
5. What does Ai-lan's mother want Yuan to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. After he finds out his father is sick, why do the guards accompany Yuan back to his father's home?
2. Why does Yuan go to the coastal city to see his sister and her mother?
3. When Yuan watches Wang the Tiger warm his hands by the fire and sees how frail he looks, how does he feel about him?
4. Why does Yuan sometimes make his homeland seem more perfect than it is?
5. In Chapter 1, why does Yuan feel trapped?
6. Why do Sheng and Yuan separate once they arrive in America?
7. Why is Yuan so focused in his studies in America?
8. When Yuan is sitting by his ill father at the fire, what causes Yuan to start to resent him again?
9. How do the villagers respond to Yuan leaving the countryside?
10. What does Yuan do when he sees the poor people outside the pleasure house? What does he think of the poor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Yuan joins the cause believing that it will help give him freedom, especially from his father's control. How does Yuan discover that the cause actually means less freedom? What is Yuan's reaction? Cite at least three specific examples from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
How is freedom elusive to Yuan? How does Yuan constantly search for freedom but fail to find it? Cite at least examples from the novel to prove the argument.
Essay Topic 3
Describe how Sheng is symbolic of tradition and Meng is symbolic of revolution. Cite at least five specific examples. Also explain how three other characters are symbolic of either revolution or tradition.
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