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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 Mr. Feng say eating his first qiguo made him feel?
(a) Like he did the day he got his first job.
(b) Like he did the first summer he visited Europe.
(c) Like he was 25 again.
(d) Like he did on his wedding day.

2. What does Lulu often call the narrator?
(a) My Best Friend.
(b) Traitor.
(c) Honey.
(d) Big Brother.

3. What secret does Lulu tell the narrator when she first comes to visit him in college?
(a) She is a lesbian.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is going to America.
(d) She is dropping out of college.

4. What did Gao and his friends do to an outcast when they were school children?
(a) Poisoned him.
(b) Beat him to death.
(c) Threw him down a well.
(d) Reported him to the police.

5. Where does the narrator go after Gao dies?
(a) Spain.
(b) China.
(c) England.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does the narrator take as he gets to be an older college student?

2. What do the rumors say has happened to the Sunshan farm?

3. How does Bayi's boyfriend tell her he was injured?

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

5. How do the people on the street act the first season the new fruit is available?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bayi tell Keju that might actually help his family in "Hotline Girl"?

2. How does Bayi leave things with Keju in "Hotline Girl"?

3. How does the government handle the crisis apparently caused by the second season of qiguo?

4. After Gao's suicide, how does the narrator begin to feel towards people whose marriages end due to infidelity?

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

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

7. In the story "New Fruit," what kinds of feelings does the qiguo produce in people at first?

8. How do the characters seem to feel about the prospect of trying qiguo after the disastrous second season?

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

10. When does the narrator tell his fiance Mao Xin about his sister in the story "Lulu?"

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