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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 the handsome man in "Shanghai Murmur" leave behind that Xiaolei keeps?
(a) His tie.
(b) His photo.
(c) His wallet.
(d) A good pen.

2. Where is one place Xiaolei used to go often on her days off, but recently stopped going to so often?
(a) The Mountain.
(b) The library.
(c) The Club.
(d) The Bund.

3. Why does Lisette leave town?
(a) Her mother is ill and she wants to care for her in her mother's hometown.
(b) She gets a new job.
(c) She has a new boyfriend.
(d) She is tired of life there.

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

5. What does Cao Cao disassemble to make his plane?
(a) An old car.
(b) An old jiqirien.
(c) A dasiki.
(d) A different plane he made once.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the person flying with Cao Cao feel when the plane is unable to get off the ground?

2. What does the man's wife claim the item he left at the shop was worth?

3. Who is the village's party secretary?

4. What do Cao Cao's business cards say?

5. What does the handsome customer tell Xiaolei he does for a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Xiaolei like her job at the flower shop?

5. What does Xiaolei do to honor the man who dies in her building in "Shanghai Murmur"?

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

7. Why does Cao Cao work so relentlessly on his airplane?

8. What is one sacrifice Cao Cao makes to please the local Communist leader every season?

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

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

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