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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Xiaolei do for the man in the apartment building who died?
(a) Helped his daughter who was suffering.
(b) Brought a white flower for him and left it in the apartment.
(c) Gave money to a charity in his name.
(d) Cooked some food to help his journey to the spirit world.

3. Why do some people in the village dislike the party secretary?
(a) He is never in the town but rather always at his vacation home.
(b) He is rude to them.
(c) They say he skims money from the town for himself and does not do his share of the work.
(d) He never patronizes the town's businesses.

4. Who flies with Cao Cao on the first attempted flight in his plane?
(a) His son.
(b) The party secretary.
(c) His daughter.
(d) Anning.

5. 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 library.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The opera.

6. What does Perry seem to think the narrator did to Lisette?
(a) Belittled her work.
(b) Physically harmed her.
(c) Reported her to the police.
(d) Married her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Why does Xiaolei refuse to give back the item the handsome man has left in the shop?
(a) Her boss tells her to steal it.
(b) She wants to keep it, so she makes up a rule about only being able to give property back to the person who left it.
(c) She has misplaced it.
(d) She has sold it already.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Perry die?

2. What pet does Zhu Feng's father have?

3. Who comes to collect the item the handsome man has left behind in "Shanghai Murmur"?

4. What does the handsome customer tell Xiaolei he does for a living?

5. What does Zhu Feng's mother do for a living?

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