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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 Cao Cao decide to build in the story "Flying Machine"?
(a) A boat.
(b) A plane.
(c) A car.
(d) A corn-husking machine.

2. Where does Xiaolei go on her day off after keeping the handsome man's item?
(a) Triumph Mansion.
(b) Richard's Bluff.
(c) Her hometown.
(d) The bottle factory.

3. What does Cao Cao do with most of the fruit he picks every season?
(a) Gives it to the homeless shelter.
(b) Bakes it in a pie for himself and his wife.
(c) Gives it to his daughter.
(d) Gives it to the party secretary.

4. What ride does the narrator insist on taking Lisette on that she refuses to go on?
(a) The Ferris Wheel.
(b) Teacups.
(c) The roller coaster.
(d) Tunnel of Love.

5. How does the narrator feel in jail when he thinks of how Perry looked in his apartment after he died?
(a) Wracked with guilt.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Calm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the handsome man give Xiaolei when she asks what he does?

2. What job was Lisette doing when the narrator met her?

3. What work does the narrator of "On the Street Where You Live" do?

4. Who is Cao Cao's closest friend?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Cao Cao's noodle robot?

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

4. In "Land of Big Numbers," why is Zhu Feng jealous of Li?

5. How does Lisette treat the narrator in the story "On the Street Where You Live"?

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

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

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

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

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

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