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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 is Xiaolei's only regret regarding the item she keeps from the handsome man?
(a) She had not returned it.
(b) She had not spent more time with it.
(c) She had not sold it.
(d) She had not written her diary with it.

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

3. What does the handsome man give Xiaolei when she asks what he does?
(a) His hat.
(b) His wallet.
(c) His lapel pin.
(d) His card.

4. What does the lettering on Xiaolei's sweatpants say that she wears on her day off?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Juciy.
(c) Team.
(d) Superstar.

5. Why does Xiaolei have to wake so early for work on Fridays?
(a) She has to stop by her lawyer's office first.
(b) She must get to the market to beat the other flower sellers for the best stock.
(c) She has to do the shop's accounts.
(d) She has to clean the shop from top to bottom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cao Cao disassemble to make his plane?

2. What happened to Zhu Feng's father when he was a young man that affected his life later?

3. How does Perry die?

4. Who does Xiaolei anxiously wait for at work?

5. Who flies with Cao Cao on the first attempted flight in his plane?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Cao Cao's relationship with his son like?

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

5. What does Xiaolei start to think about the handsome and well-dressed man who gets flowers almost every week?

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

7. Why does Xiaolei become obsessed with the pen for years after losing it?

8. How does Old Li save Cao Cao's pride in the story "Flying Machine"?

9. How does Xiaolei feel after visiting the handsome, rich man's apartment in the story "Shanghai Murmur"?

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

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