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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 is one place Gao's mother takes the narrator when she visits?

2. In "Hotline Girl," what adorns the highways each spring?

3. In "Field Notes on a Marriage," why does Gao resist the idea of returning to China?

4. Who calls Bay at work that startles her?

5. Why does the narrator get angry at Lulu's boyfriend after Lulu is sentenced to a long prison term?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator end up thinking about Lulu's boyfriend towards the end of the story?

2. What changes after Pang Ayi and Lao Zhou eat the qiguo in "New Fruit"?

3. Why does Mr. Sun end up in the hospital in the story "New Fruit"?

4. What does Lulu seem to think of the narrator's decision to focus so much on video games?

5. In "Hotline Girl," How does Bayi feel about her work?

6. How do the characters seem to feel about the prospect of trying qiguo after the disastrous second season?

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

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

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

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

In the story "Hotline Girl," how does Chen illustrate the nature of the Chinese government's interactions with its citizens through Bayi's work experiences at the hotline? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Lisette treat the narrator in the story "On the Street Where You Live," and how aware is the narrator of the more negative aspects of their relationship? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

In the story "Lulu," how does the narrator begin to feel about Lulu's increasingly aggressive activism? How does Chen develop the growing tension between Lulu and the narrator, and how does she communicate this tension to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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