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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scenes 9, 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Song afraid of as she is entertaining Gallimard in her parlor?
(a) Love.
(b) Hoping for too much.
(c) Scandal.
(d) A beating from her father.

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

3. In grammar school, what title was Gallimard given?
(a) "Least likely to succeed."
(b) "Least popular."
(c) "Least likely to be invited to a party."
(d) "Least likely to kiss a girl."

4. Why does Song believe women's roles in opera are played by men?
(a) Song believes women can't act.
(b) Song believes only a man knows how a woman should act.
(c) Song believes China wants to keep women unstimulated.
(d) Song believes a woman is too smart to act.

5. How does Gallimard describe his meetings with Song after her weekly performances?
(a) Long.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Short.
(d) Full of pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gallimard feel about his inability to produce a child?

2. Finish Gallimard's sentence: "Oriental women - when they're good they're very good, but when they're bad..."

3. In Madame Butterfly, how old is Butterfly?

4. In what years does Scene 5 take place?

5. Who is Gallimard used to seeing play the lead in Madame Butterfly?

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