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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 95 - 144, "Flying Machine" and "On the Street Where You Live").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Field Notes on a Marriage," why does Gao resist the idea of returning to China?
(a) He has no family there any longer.
(b) It is too cold in the winter.
(c) He says it is dirty and not very charming.
(d) It is too expensive to go there.

2. Who does Cao Cao try to woo to become what he most wants to be?
(a) The local doctor.
(b) The local engineer.
(c) The local party secretary.
(d) His father-in-law, who is a farmer.

3. What does Lulu do compulsively as a child?
(a) Wash her hands.
(b) Eat.
(c) Read.
(d) Sew.

4. What did Gao and the others think a particular outsider child in their school was?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A European.
(c) An alien.
(d) A spy.

5. How does the narrator feel in jail when he thinks of how Perry looked in his apartment after he died?
(a) Wracked with guilt.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Calm.
(d) Suspicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the undertone of taste of the new fruit?

2. What does Perry find in the narrator's apartment that upsets him badly?

3. What job does the narrator take as he gets to be an older college student?

4. Who is the village's party secretary?

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

(see the answer key)

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