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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 145 - 192, "Shanghai Murmur" and "Land of Big Numbers").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zhu Feng find out about his father during the course of the story?
(a) He was once a landscaper.
(b) He was once a protester.
(c) He was one a professor.
(d) He was once a doctor.

2. What do the rumors say has happened to the Sunshan farm?
(a) It has been bought by a private company.
(b) It has been bombed.
(c) No one knows.
(d) It has been cordoned off, and the qiguo crop burned.

3. Why do some people in the village dislike the party secretary?
(a) He is never in the town but rather always at his vacation home.
(b) He never patronizes the town's businesses.
(c) They say he skims money from the town for himself and does not do his share of the work.
(d) He is rude to them.

4. What pet does Zhu Feng's father have?
(a) A hamster.
(b) A parrot.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A red-billed songbird.

5. How does the person flying with Cao Cao feel when the plane is unable to get off the ground?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Angry.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) Elated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator in "Field Notes on a Marriage" grow up?

2. What kind of robot does Cao Cao make?

3. Why does Anning wish she and Cao Cao had had a daughter?

4. Who does Cao Cao try to woo to become what he most wants to be?

5. Who took Cao Cao's robot and used it for a while?

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