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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what other name does Pinkerton's wife go?
(a) Lovely One.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Little One.
(d) Butterfly.

2. What is one of the features of Pinkerton's house?
(a) A view of the rice fields.
(b) A view of the ocean.
(c) A disco mirror ball.
(d) Shag carpet.

3. What does Song say is one of a Westerner's favorite fantasies?
(a) The submissive Oriental woman and the shy white man.
(b) The meek husband and the brave Oriental wife.
(c) The submissive Oriental woman with the cruel white man.
(d) The submissive white women with the cruel Oriental man.

4. In what year does Scene 4 take place?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1960
(c) 1947
(d) Present day.

5. What it the setting of Scene 6?
(a) His flat in Beijing.
(b) The Australian ambassador's house.
(c) The German ambassador's house.
(d) His flat in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Helga go on the night Gallimard went to the opera house?

2. What does Gallimard consider himself to be?

3. In the first scene of the play, how old is Gallimard?

4. What does Song hate about her audience?

5. In Act 1, Scene 7, when Gallimard is speaking to Helga, what does he say about the Chinese?

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