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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. Where does the narrator meet his fiance?

2. What event does the narrator get to compete in towards the end of the story "Lulu"?

3. What does Gao's mother say was one defining aspect of his personality when he was a child?

4. How does Bayi's boyfriend tell her he was injured?

5. What does the color of Bayi's lanyard indicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bayi leave things with Keju in "Hotline Girl"?

2. How do Lulu's parents react when she is arrested for her activities against the government?

3. After Gao's suicide, how does the narrator begin to feel towards people whose marriages end due to infidelity?

4. What does the narrator think of the "dingzihu" in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?

5. Why do people keep eating the qiguo during the second season, even though it mostly makes people feel awful by then?

6. In "Field Notes on a Marriage," why is Gao reluctant to visit China with the narrator?

7. What does "qiguo" mean in the story "New Fruit"?

8. In the story "New Fruit," what kinds of feelings does the qiguo produce in people at first?

9. In the story "Lulu," what secret does Lulu tell the narrator that shocks him shortly after they both start college?

10. What does Suqi do as a job on the side in "Hotline Girl" that Bayi knows is quite dark?

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

What does Zhu Feng learn about his father that he never knew before in the story "Land of Big Numbers" after he gets in over his head on the stock market? How does this information make him see his father differently? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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