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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 is Bayi glad for in the end of "Hotline Girl"?
2. What color is Bayi's lanyard?
3. What special day does the country celebrate together towards the end of "New Fruit"?
4. What does the color of Bayi's lanyard indicate?
5. Who is Lulu's boyfriend?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bayi leave things with Keju in "Hotline Girl"?
2. In "Hotline Girl," why is Bayi so disturbed at hearing Keju's voice on her phone?
3. What memory floods Lao Zhou after eating a plate of qiguo during the second season?
4. How do Lulu's parents react when she is arrested for her activities against the government?
5. What did Gao and his school friends think was going on with Mouse in "Field Notes on a Marriage"?
6. In the story "New Fruit," what kinds of feelings does the qiguo produce in people at first?
7. Why do people keep eating the qiguo during the second season, even though it mostly makes people feel awful by then?
8. After Gao's suicide, how does the narrator begin to feel towards people whose marriages end due to infidelity?
9. What does Bayi tell Keju that might actually help his family in "Hotline Girl"?
10. What haunts Gao from his childhood that he tells the narrator once?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why - and how - does Gao's wife eventually find out that Gao had such strong reservations about returning to China to visit in the story "Field Notes on a Marriage?" Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
In the story "Gubeikou Spirit," what does it mean to Pan when Jun stops fighting and seems to accept the peoples' fate in the train station? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
How would you describe Chen's tone and language throughout this collection? What specific feelings and ideas do you think Chen attempts to communicate through her characters to the reader, and how does the specific language she uses throughout the collection enhance them? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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