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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 - Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say will be a great achievement?
(a) The narrator does not mention a great achievement.
(b) The body reaching its burial spot intact.
(c) Stopping the oncoming lava flow.
(d) The Three Gorges Dam.

2. What do Hulan and David do at Chongqing?
(a) Board a ferry.
(b) Rent a car.
(c) Register with the local authorities.
(d) Board an airplane.

3. Who is Yu the Great?
(a) The ruler of Szechun at the time of the book.
(b) A figure of legend.
(c) The ruler of China at the time of the book.
(d) A magistrate who has the Chairman's ear.

4. What is Hulan's husband doing as she is in Tienanmen Square?
(a) Preparing to kill himself.
(b) Writing Hulan a letter.
(c) Preparing to return to the States.
(d) Thinking of his daughter and his marriage.

5. How does Hulan accidentally kill Tang Wenting?
(a) Hulan shoots Wenting in the shoulder, but a bone fragment cuts the carotid.
(b) She struggles with Wenting for the knife and it cuts Wenting's femoral artery.
(c) Hulan intended to kill Wenting.
(d) She is shooting at some thieves and hits Wenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Hulan's mother plagued?

2. Who is not at the jeep when Hulan and David arrive there?

3. How was Lily mutilated?

4. When does Hulan denounce her father?

5. Whom was Hulan allowed to marry?

(see the answer key)

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