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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 Zhu Feng find out about his father during the course of the story?
(a) He was once a landscaper.
(b) He was once a protester.
(c) He was once a doctor.
(d) He was one a professor.

2. How does Zhu Feng decide to try to make more money?
(a) By selling bootleg music.
(b) By working as a DJ on weekends.
(c) By working nights as a chef.
(d) In the stock market.

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

4. Who does Cao Cao try to woo to become what he most wants to be?
(a) The local doctor.
(b) The local party secretary.
(c) His father-in-law, who is a farmer.
(d) The local engineer.

5. What job does Xiaolei tell her parents she had secured in order to move from her hometown to the big city?
(a) A job at a microchip factory.
(b) A teaching job.
(c) A job at a daycare.
(d) A job at a hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cao Cao most want to be?

2. How does Perry die?

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

4. What does the handsome man in "Shanghai Murmur" leave behind that Xiaolei keeps?

5. Where does the handsome customer in "Shanghai Murmur" live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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