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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 order does the handsome man always pick up when Xiaolei waits on him?

2. What does the handsome man give Xiaolei when she asks what he does?

3. What does Cao Cao most want to be?

4. Why does Xiaolei have to wake so early for work on Fridays?

5. What job does Xiaolei have in the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Xiaolei do to honor the man who dies in her building in "Shanghai Murmur"?

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

3. Why does Xiaolei get in an altercation with the handsome customer's wife?

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

5. What does Cao Cao suspect about the party secretary in "Flying Machine"?

6. In "Land of Big Numbers," why is Zhu Feng jealous of Li?

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

8. Why does Xiaolei like her job at the flower shop?

9. Why does Xiaolei so desperately want to move to the city in "Shanghai Murmur"?

10. What does Xiaolei's boss at the flower shop do when she finds out Xiaolei has lost the pen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Gao's wife learn about him, his family, and China when she travels to China for the first time following his death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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