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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. Where did the Chairman have a chance to study when he was a student, but turned it down?

2. How long after Mei arrives at the capital does Teacher Fan announce that the girls will perform for troops around the country?

3. What part does Mei audition to play in Chapter 6?

4. How old was Mei when she met the Chairman?

5. When was Ya'an at the center of the revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what is to be Mei's job?

2. When does the Chairman die, and how do the people of Chinatown in San Francisco respond?

3. In Chapter 4, how does Mei help Midnight Chang?

4. What does Mei's mother do for her and give her before Mei lives for Beijing?

5. What are the lakes like at the Lake Palaces, and how were the lakes created?

6. What happens to those who leave the troupe?

7. In Chapter 13, why does Mei wants to see her parents?

8. How is Mei chosen to go to Beijing?

9. Where did the Chairman have a chance to study and learn how to build factories, and why did he not go?

10. What does Mei do when Secretary Sun takes her to get her belongings in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mei is given a mission in Chapter 7. What is her mission? Is she being used as a pawn?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Forbidden City? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters, especially Mei?

Essay Topic 3

The Chairman’s care is entrusted to Mei when he gets sick in Chapter 15. What does it mean that the Chairman trusted Mei “enough to show his throat to [her]” (184)?

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