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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. What does Fei spend his money on?

2. What does the waitress ask the men?

3. What did Fei last do about forty years ago?

4. What is the girl's father not into?

5. What caused the most fury among the parents and teachers of Fei's school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mrs. Jin change her fortunes?

2. How is Moyan treated by Lieutenant Wei?

3. How does Mrs. Jin's ego come across to the reader?

4. Why does Yilan feel powerless against Fusang?

5. Does Yilan like this idea?

6. Why is Moyan unhappy despite her best efforts to avoid pain?

7. How did Yilan lose her daughter?

8. What was Mrs. Jin's upbringing?

9. What is Kindness about?

10. How does the surrogacy with Fusang work out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters are lonely in the book? How do some characters solve their problem of loneliness? Why can some characters not escape their loneliness?

Essay Topic 2

Does any character prove themselves to be honest in the book? How does their honesty, or lack of honesty affect their lives?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Chinese and American culture.

1. What are the differences between the two cultures?

2. In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

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