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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man's wife claim the item he left at the shop was worth?
(a) Almost nothing.
(b) The price of the average house in the city.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) Twenty times Xiaolei's monthly salary.

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

3. What happens to the handsome man's item in "Shanghai Murmur"?
(a) Xiaolei keeps it.
(b) Xiaolei sells it.
(c) Xiaolei throws it into the river.
(d) Xiaolei loses it and never finds it again.

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

5. What did Lisette often ask the narrator for?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Sex.

6. What does Cao Cao decide to build in the story "Flying Machine"?
(a) A boat.
(b) A car.
(c) A corn-husking machine.
(d) A plane.

7. What work does the narrator of "On the Street Where You Live" do?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Design amusement park rides.
(c) Construction.
(d) Accounting.

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

9. 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) Calls the police to arrest her.
(d) Refers her to a family lawyer.

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

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

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

13. In the story "Land of Big Numbers," who is Zhu Feng's best friend?
(a) Peng.
(b) Li.
(c) Zhou.
(d) Ayi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel in jail when he thinks of how Perry looked in his apartment after he died?

2. Who is Xiaolei's boss at her job?

3. What job was Lisette doing when the narrator met her?

4. Why does the narrator get angry sometimes when he thinks of Lisette and Perry, and of Lisette's leaving?

5. What job does Xiaolei have in the beginning of the story?

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