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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 is the undertone of taste of the new fruit?
(a) Acid.
(b) Water.
(c) Strawberry.
(d) Chocolate.

2. What does the narrator shout at the blonde woman he follows once in "On the Street Where You Live"?
(a) Pretty Lady.
(b) Bitch.
(c) Slut.
(d) Whore.

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

4. What does Xiaolei's boss at the shop do when she finds out Xiaolei has refused to give the man's item back and then lost it?
(a) Calls the police to arrest her.
(b) Fires her and keeps her last two weeks' wages.
(c) Refers her to a family lawyer.
(d) Beats her.

5. What does Xiaolei do for the man in the apartment building who died?
(a) Gave money to a charity in his name.
(b) Helped his daughter who was suffering.
(c) Cooked some food to help his journey to the spirit world.
(d) Brought a white flower for him and left it in the apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zhu Feng borrow money from?

2. What does Cao Cao decide to build in the story "Flying Machine"?

3. What does Old Li say to help Cao Cao's ego when the plane does not fly?

4. Who asks to ride in the plane after it fails to get off the ground?

5. What does the narrator eventually give to Perry after he keeps asking?

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