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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Song wearing when Gallimard enters her apartment?
(a) A sheer dressing gown.
(b) A kimono.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A full formal dress.

2. In Gallimard's fantasy, who plays Pinkerton?
(a) Marc.
(b) Comrade Chin.
(c) Gallimard himself.
(d) Manuel Toulon.

3. How old is Gallimard at the point Scene 13 occurs?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Twenty-eight.

4. Who is Gallimard used to seeing play the lead in Madame Butterfly?
(a) Huge women in viking helmets.
(b) Huge men in bad makeup.
(c) Huge women in bad makeup.
(d) Small men in drag.

5. From what location is Gallimard narrating his story?
(a) A prison cell in Paris.
(b) His flat in Paris.
(c) A courtroom in Paris.
(d) His flat in Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Song's letter does Gallimard quote for her?

2. How much time has passed since Gallimard's last meeting with Song by Scene 13?

3. At what time does Song call Gallimard?

4. Who are the two main characters of the opera, Madame Butterfly?

5. What does Song say is undervalued in the West?

(see the answer key)

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