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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 do Cao Cao's business cards say?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Inventor and Grassroots Engineer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Construction Worker.
2. What pet does Zhu Feng's father have?
(a) A red-billed songbird.
(b) A hamster.
(c) A parrot.
(d) A rabbit.
3. Why do some people in the village dislike the party secretary?
(a) He never patronizes the town's businesses.
(b) He is never in the town but rather always at his vacation home.
(c) He is rude to them.
(d) They say he skims money from the town for himself and does not do his share of the work.
4. What happens when the man upstairs from Xiaolei dies in the story "Shanghai Murmur"?
(a) The authorities came right away to burn the body.
(b) It takes other tenants days to notice.
(c) The whole apartment building cried.
(d) The ceiling fell in.
5. What job does Xiaolei have in the beginning of the story?
(a) Chef.
(b) Flower seller.
(c) Microchip assembly line worker.
(d) Customer service representative.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator eventually give to Perry after he keeps asking?
2. What order does the handsome man always pick up when Xiaolei waits on him?
3. Who is the village's party secretary?
4. How does Perry die?
5. What does Xiaolei's boss at the shop do when she finds out Xiaolei has refused to give the man's item back and then lost it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Xiaolei so desperately want to move to the city in "Shanghai Murmur"?
2. What does Xiaolei do to honor the man who dies in her building in "Shanghai Murmur"?
3. What is one sacrifice Cao Cao makes to please the local Communist leader every season?
4. What does Xiaolei start to think about the handsome and well-dressed man who gets flowers almost every week?
5. What happens to Cao Cao's noodle robot?
6. What is Cao Cao's relationship with his son like?
7. What does Cao Cao suspect about the party secretary in "Flying Machine"?
8. What does Perry mistakenly think the narrator has done with Lisette?
9. What does Perry ask for that he thinks might help find Lisette, and why will the narrator not give it to him at first?
10. How does Lisette treat the narrator in the story "On the Street Where You Live"?
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