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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Old Li say to help Cao Cao's ego when the plane does not fly?
(a) It may not be a plane, but it is a good car.
(b) There is one small problem - the plane just needs more gas.
(c) He knows how to fix it.
(d) The plane is too stylish to fly.

2. What do Cao Cao's business cards say?
(a) Construction Worker.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Inventor and Grassroots Engineer.
(d) Doctor.

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

4. 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) Calm.
(c) Satisfied.
(d) Suspicious.

5. Who does Zhu Feng borrow money from?
(a) Li.
(b) Fang.
(c) Bayi.
(d) Peng.

6. What does Zhu Feng find out about his father during the course of the story?
(a) He was one a professor.
(b) He was once a protester.
(c) He was once a doctor.
(d) He was once a landscaper.

7. What does Zhu Feng's mother do for a living?
(a) Care assistant in a nursing facility.
(b) Cook.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Landscaper.

8. What does Cao Cao do for a living?
(a) Construction.
(b) Practice medicine.
(c) Practice law.
(d) Farm.

9. How does Zhu Feng decide to try to make more money?
(a) In the stock market.
(b) By working as a DJ on weekends.
(c) By working nights as a chef.
(d) By selling bootleg music.

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

11. What pet does Zhu Feng's father have?
(a) A parrot.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A hamster.
(d) A red-billed songbird.

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

13. Who took Cao Cao's robot and used it for a while?
(a) A doctor.
(b) The party secretary.
(c) A restaurant in town.
(d) A lawyer.

14. Who is Cao Cao's closest friend?
(a) Old Li.
(b) Peng.
(c) Pen.
(d) Feng.

15. What does the lettering on Xiaolei's sweatpants say that she wears on her day off?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Team.
(c) Superstar.
(d) Juciy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had performed years earlier at the funeral of the party secretary's father?

2. What order does the handsome man always pick up when Xiaolei waits on him?

3. Why does Xiaolei refuse to give back the item the handsome man has left in the shop?

4. Where is one place Xiaolei used to go often on her days off, but recently stopped going to so often?

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

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