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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator shout at the blonde woman he follows once in "On the Street Where You Live"?
(a) Whore.
(b) Slut.
(c) Bitch.
(d) Pretty Lady.

2. What does the handsome man give Xiaolei when she asks what he does?
(a) His wallet.
(b) His card.
(c) His lapel pin.
(d) His hat.

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

4. What does Cao Cao disassemble to make his plane?
(a) A dasiki.
(b) A different plane he made once.
(c) An old car.
(d) An old jiqirien.

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

6. Who is Xiaolei's boss at her job?
(a) Youngjie.
(b) Peng.
(c) Feng.
(d) Lao Zhou.

7. Why does Lisette leave town?
(a) She has a new boyfriend.
(b) She is tired of life there.
(c) She gets a new job.
(d) Her mother is ill and she wants to care for her in her mother's hometown.

8. What does Cao Cao most want to be?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A party member.
(d) A farmer.

9. What job does Xiaolei tell her parents she had secured in order to move from her hometown to the big city?
(a) A job at a hospital.
(b) A teaching job.
(c) A job at a daycare.
(d) A job at a microchip factory.

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

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

12. In the story "On the Street Where You Live," what does the narrator see in the jail?
(a) A rat.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A slug.

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

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

15. Where does the handsome customer in "Shanghai Murmur" live?
(a) Triumph Mansion.
(b) Burkshire.
(c) Helo Tower.
(d) The Greenway.

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. Where does the narrator see Perry again after giving him what he had been asking for for so long?

3. What is the party secretary wearing when he opens his door when Cao Cao brings him the fruit?

4. Why does Xiaolei have to wake so early for work on Fridays?

5. Who is the village's party secretary?

(see the answer keys)

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