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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fires her and keeps her last two weeks' wages.
(b) Beats her.
(c) Refers her to a family lawyer.
(d) Calls the police to arrest her.

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

3. Why does Anning wish she and Cao Cao had had a daughter?
(a) So she could help on the farm.
(b) So her dowry would help them financially.
(c) So she could take care of them in their old age.
(d) So she could go to college and earn a degree.

4. Who asks to ride in the plane after it fails to get off the ground?
(a) Cao Cao's father.
(b) The party secretary.
(c) One of the town's youth.
(d) Cao Cao's son.

5. How does Perry die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) The narrator pushes him and he hits his head on the radiator in the apartment.
(c) The narrator stabs him.
(d) The narrator suffocates him.

6. What kind of robot does Cao Cao make?
(a) A noodle-slicing robot.
(b) A fruit-picking robot.
(c) A dish-washing robot.
(d) A singing robot.

7. What does the handsome customer tell Xiaolei he does for a living?
(a) Food service.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Sales.
(d) Law.

8. Who had performed years earlier at the funeral of the party secretary's father?
(a) A comedian.
(b) A psychic.
(c) A magician.
(d) A dancer.

9. Who comes to collect the item the handsome man has left behind in "Shanghai Murmur"?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mother.
(c) His assistant.
(d) His wife.

10. What does the narrator feed Perry when he comes back to the apartment?
(a) An omelette.
(b) Cake.
(c) Cereal.
(d) Chips.

11. Where does the narrator see Perry again after giving him what he had been asking for for so long?
(a) The opera.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) A car race.
(d) The library.

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

13. What is the name of Cao Cao's village?
(a) Mila Village.
(b) Peng Village.
(c) Ren Village.
(d) Big Duck Village.

14. What ride does the narrator insist on taking Lisette on that she refuses to go on?
(a) The Ferris Wheel.
(b) Tunnel of Love.
(c) The roller coaster.
(d) Teacups.

15. Who is the village's party secretary?
(a) Fang.
(b) Jiang.
(c) Ren.
(d) Peng.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does the narrator of "On the Street Where You Live" do?

2. Why do some people in the village dislike the party secretary?

3. Who does Zhu Feng work for?

4. What do the villagers go up the mountain to gather in the story "Flying Machine"?

5. What did Lisette often ask the narrator for?

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