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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. What does Keju say happened after Bayi broke up with him in "Hotline Girl"?
(a) He moved to America for a while.
(b) He went a little crazy.
(c) He got a new job.
(d) He moved back in with his parents.

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

3. What do the residents call the man guarding the front gate?
(a) Mr. Sun.
(b) Bao'an.
(c) Pen.
(d) The concierge.

4. Who is the only one who regularly writes to Lulu while she is in prison?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her best friend.

5. Where does the narrator in "Field Notes on a Marriage" grow up?
(a) New York City.
(b) A farm in Indiana.
(c) China.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lulu sneak into once when she and the narrator are children?

2. What shape is the fruit in "New Fruit"?

3. How does Bayi feel about her ex-boyfriend's family?

4. Where did the police find Gao's body?

5. Who was the first on the street to try the new fruit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Field Notes on a Marriage," why is Gao reluctant to visit China with the narrator?

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

6. What haunts Gao from his childhood that he tells the narrator once?

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

8. What does Suqi do as a job on the side in "Hotline Girl" that Bayi knows is quite dark?

9. How does eating the qiguo change people's behavior during the first season it is available?

10. In "Hotline Girl," How does Bayi feel about her work?

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