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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order does the handsome man always pick up when Xiaolei waits on him?
(a) Seven red roses and three lilies.
(b) Nine orchids.
(c) A dozen roses.
(d) Three tulips.

2. Who does Xiaolei anxiously wait for at work?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her boss, who she likes.
(c) The handsome, wealthy man who buys flowers every week.
(d) Her mother.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What job does Xiaolei have in the beginning of the story?
(a) Flower seller.
(b) Chef.
(c) Customer service representative.
(d) Microchip assembly line worker.

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

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

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

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

13. Who is Cao Cao's wife?
(a) Bayi.
(b) Ri.
(c) Anning.
(d) Xiaolei.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took Cao Cao's robot and used it for a while?

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

3. What does the narrator eventually give to Perry after he keeps asking?

4. What happens when Xiaolei knocks on the handsome man's door?

5. What is Xiaolei's only regret regarding the item she keeps from the handsome man?

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