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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gao die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heart attack.

2. When does the narrator's fiance first learn about Lulu?
(a) During a visit to his parents' house when she sees a picture there.
(b) When the narrator's aunt mentions Lulu offhandedly.
(c) When she sees Lulu on the news.
(d) When the narrator gets a call from Lulu.

3. Who is the person responsible for bringing the new fruit to the world?
(a) Fan Shiyi.
(b) Xiaolei.
(c) Pen.
(d) Mr. Sun.

4. How do the people on the street act the first season the new fruit is available?
(a) They are more likely to take trips with each other.
(b) They are meaner.
(c) They are sadder.
(d) They are kinder.

5. What is Bayi glad for in the end of "Hotline Girl"?
(a) She is having a baby soon.
(b) She is cured from cancer.
(c) She is young and free.
(d) She has plenty of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see on the hill on her way out of China that Gao's mother explains about?

2. What does Gao tell the narrator his mother worked as?

3. What were the crates that the new fruit arrived in labeled?

4. What does Gao's mother say was one defining aspect of his personality when he was a child?

5. What secret does Lulu tell the narrator when she first comes to visit him in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes after Pang Ayi and Lao Zhou eat the qiguo in "New Fruit"?

2. What does "qiguo" mean in the story "New Fruit"?

3. What does the narrator end up thinking about Lulu's boyfriend towards the end of the story?

4. What memory floods Lao Zhou after eating a plate of qiguo during the second season?

5. Who is the only one to refuse to try the new fruit, and why, in the story "New Fruit?"

6. In "Hotline Girl," why is Bayi so disturbed at hearing Keju's voice on her phone?

7. What did Gao and his school friends think was going on with Mouse in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?

8. What does the narrator think of the "dingzihu" in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?

9. In the story "Lulu," how does the narrator become aware of Lulu's protests against the government?

10. Why do people keep eating the qiguo during the second season, even though it mostly makes people feel awful by then?

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