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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sweeping Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the women's mothers worry about?
(a) Their children's marriages.
(b) Their children's careers.
(c) Their own careers.
(d) Their own marriages.

2. What is Ying responsible for buying?
(a) Tablecloths and napkins.
(b) Books and paper.
(c) Award trophies.
(d) Ingredients for dinner.

3. What catches the boy off guard?
(a) Fei raising his thumb.
(b) Fei's voyeurism.
(c) Fei's lack of teeth.
(d) The complexity of the girl's bra.

4. What saddens Ailin about Ying?
(a) She did not ask permission to reprint the old photo.
(b) She will not inherit the family restaurant.
(c) She will not pay her friends.
(d) She cannot dream as much as she did.

5. What happens to the photographer?
(a) He defects to Germany.
(b) He lives to a hundred.
(c) He is beaten to death.
(d) He is jailed for being a capitalist spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which books does Mrs. Tang prefer?

2. Where does Ailin remember the photographer touching her?

3. What have Fei's hands never cupped?

4. What does the man apologize to Fei for?

5. How does the reprint compare to the original?

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