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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color is Bayi's lanyard?
2. In "Hotline Girl," what adorns the highways each spring?
3. Where is one place Gao's mother takes the narrator when she visits?
4. Who is Lulu's boyfriend?
5. How do the people on the street act the first season the new fruit is available?
Short Essay Questions
1. What changes after Pang Ayi and Lao Zhou eat the qiguo in "New Fruit"?
2. How does Bayi leave things with Keju in "Hotline Girl"?
3. In "Field Notes on a Marriage," why is Gao reluctant to visit China with the narrator?
4. Who is the only one to refuse to try the new fruit, and why, in the story "New Fruit?"
5. What does Suqi do as a job on the side in "Hotline Girl" that Bayi knows is quite dark?
6. In "Hotline Girl," why is Bayi so disturbed at hearing Keju's voice on her phone?
7. In the story "Lulu," how does the narrator become aware of Lulu's protests against the government?
8. What did Gao and his school friends think was going on with Mouse in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?
9. In the story "Lulu," what secret does Lulu tell the narrator that shocks him shortly after they both start college?
10. What does the narrator think of the "dingzihu" in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the narrator decide to stay with her boyfriend Eric in the story titled "Beautiful Country" even though she doubts his fidelity? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Why is Xiaolei so anxious in the story "Shanghai Murmur" to leave her hometown and make her own way in the big city, even though she has no prospects and knows no one there? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
In the story "Flying Machine," why does Cao Cao want so desperately to be accepted into the Communist Party, and how does he try to achieve this goal? What aspects of life under the Communist regime does Chen convey to the reader in this story, and how does she communicate these points? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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