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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 the name of Cao Cao's village?

2. Where is one place Xiaolei used to go often on her days off, but recently stopped going to so often?

3. Why does Lisette leave town?

4. Who flies with Cao Cao on the first attempted flight in his plane?

5. What happens to the handsome man's item in "Shanghai Murmur"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Zhu Feng do to try to get more money to invest in the stock market?

2. How does Anning feel when she and Cao Cao try his plane out with the town watching?

3. How does Old Li save Cao Cao's pride in the story "Flying Machine"?

4. In "Flying Machine," what does Cao Cao have a talent for?

5. In "Flying Machine," how do Cao Cao's efforts to win over the local Communist Party work out?

6. Why does Cao Cao work so relentlessly on his airplane?

7. How does Lisette treat the narrator in the story "On the Street Where You Live"?

8. What happens to Cao Cao's noodle robot?

9. What does Xiaolei start to think about the handsome and well-dressed man who gets flowers almost every week?

10. Why does the narrator in "On the Street Where You Live" let Lisette treat him the way she does?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Chen represent as the foundation and reasons for the narrator's affections and attentions to Lisette in the story "On the Street Where You Live?" 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

What are some of the unexpected benefits of the reactions of people to the qiguo fruit in the story "New Fruit" during its second season, when it elicits strong feelings of regret, sadness, and negativity in people eating it? What aspects of human nature do you think Chen is trying to illustrate with the characters' behaviors around the fruit in this story? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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