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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 gift do the twins' parents get for them when they go to college?
(a) Laptops.
(b) Cars.
(c) Apartments.
(d) New clothes.

2. What is Xiaolei's only regret regarding the item she keeps from the handsome man?
(a) She had not written her diary with it.
(b) She had not sold it.
(c) She had not spent more time with it.
(d) She had not returned it.

3. Who is the only one on the block who refuses to try the new fruit?
(a) Lao Zhou.
(b) Pen.
(c) Mr. Sun.
(d) Xiaolei.

4. Why does Xiaolei have to wake so early for work on Fridays?
(a) She must get to the market to beat the other flower sellers for the best stock.
(b) She has to clean the shop from top to bottom.
(c) She has to stop by her lawyer's office first.
(d) She has to do the shop's accounts.

5. What does Perry find in the narrator's apartment that upsets him badly?
(a) Lisette's clothes.
(b) Lisette's mail.
(c) Lisette's shoes.
(d) Lisette's computer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gao die?

2. What does the narrator shout at the blonde woman he follows once in "On the Street Where You Live"?

3. What does the narrator feed Perry when he comes back to the apartment?

4. Where is one place Gao's mother takes the narrator when she visits?

5. What does the handsome man in "Shanghai Murmur" leave behind that Xiaolei keeps?

(see the answer key)

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