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

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

3. What is the name of Cao Cao's village?
(a) Ren Village.
(b) Mila Village.
(c) Peng Village.
(d) Big Duck Village.

4. Where does the narrator see Perry again after giving him what he had been asking for for so long?
(a) The opera.
(b) The library.
(c) A car race.
(d) The grocery store.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about the item the handsome man leaves in the shop in "Shanghai Murmur"?

2. Who had performed years earlier at the funeral of the party secretary's father?

3. How does Zhu Feng decide to try to make more money?

4. What happens to the handsome man's item in "Shanghai Murmur"?

5. How does Perry die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anning feel when she and Cao Cao try his plane out with the town watching?

2. What does Xiaolei's boss at the flower shop do when she finds out Xiaolei has lost the pen?

3. Why does the narrator in "On the Street Where You Live" let Lisette treat him the way she does?

4. What does Perry ask for that he thinks might help find Lisette, and why will the narrator not give it to him at first?

5. Why does Xiaolei get in an altercation with the handsome customer's wife?

6. What does Cao Cao suspect about the party secretary in "Flying Machine"?

7. What does Perry mistakenly think the narrator has done with Lisette?

8. What is Anning's strongest memory of the time when she and Cao Cao got married?

9. In "Flying Machine," how do Cao Cao's efforts to win over the local Communist Party work out?

10. In "Flying Machine," what does Cao Cao have a talent for?

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