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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. Who is Cao Cao's wife?
(a) Bayi.
(b) Ri.
(c) Anning.
(d) Xiaolei.

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

3. 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 written her diary with it.
(d) She had not sold it.

4. What kind of robot does Cao Cao make?
(a) A dish-washing robot.
(b) A fruit-picking robot.
(c) A noodle-slicing robot.
(d) A singing robot.

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 has to clean the shop from top to bottom.
(c) She has to do the shop's accounts.
(d) She must get to the market to beat the other flower sellers for the best stock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator of "On the Street Where You Live" meet Perry?

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

3. What job does Xiaolei tell her parents she had secured in order to move from her hometown to the big city?

4. What does the lettering on Xiaolei's sweatpants say that she wears on her day off?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Xiaolei so desperately want to move to the city in "Shanghai Murmur"?

10. What does Zhu Feng do to try to get more money to invest in the stock market?

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