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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. Why does Lisette leave town?

2. Who is Zhu Feng's father?

3. How does the person flying with Cao Cao feel when the plane is unable to get off the ground?

4. What does the narrator feed Perry when he comes back to the apartment?

5. What ride does Lisette take the narrator on right before she leaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Cao Cao's relationship with his son like?

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

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

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

6. What does Perry ask for that he thinks might help find Lisette, and why will the narrator not give it to him at first?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

In the story "Shanghai Murmur," why does Xiaolei become so fixated on the pen the attractive stranger leaves behind for years after its disappearance? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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