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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 kind of hotline does Bayi work for?
(a) Clothing company help line.
(b) Makeup help line.
(c) Government help line.
(d) Telephone company help line.

2. Who is the best worker at the hotline?
(a) Peng.
(b) Suqi.
(c) Keju.
(d) Bayi.

3. What is different about Bayi's ex-boyfriend when she sees him?
(a) He is missing part of his arm.
(b) He has gained a lot of weight.
(c) He is missing an eye.
(d) He has lost all his hair.

4. What is one big reason Bayi left her ex-boyfriend?
(a) He told her to leave.
(b) He was unfaithful to her.
(c) He physically abused her.
(d) He stole her money.

5. What does Bayi's mother tell her about Keju once?
(a) Keju will be a good father.
(b) Bayi will never find anyone else who loves her so much.
(c) Keju is dangerous.
(d) Keju's family is not respectable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator in "Field Notes on a Marriage" grow up?

2. Who does the narrator begin to think actually knows Lulu better than anyone else in the family?

3. Who is the only one on the block who refuses to try the new fruit?

4. What does the twins' mother do for work in "Lulu"?

5. What did Gao and the others think a particular outsider child in their school was?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens during the second season the qiguo is available?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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