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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason Song gives for not wanting to marry Gallimard?
(a) She loves him too much.
(b) She wants to concentrate on her career.
(c) She is not worthy.
(d) She doesn't believe in marriage.

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

3. What does Song say is necessary to counter a counter-revolutionary act?
(a) A counter-revolutionary act.
(b) An act of desperation.
(c) An act of violence.
(d) A revolutionary act.

4. Who do the Vietnamese generals plan on assassinating?
(a) Ho Chi Minh.
(b) The president of France.
(c) President Diem.
(d) Chairman Mao.

5. What does Gallimard claim about the Chinese?
(a) They do not like Ho Chi Minh.
(b) They want to be protected by the Vietnamese.
(c) They love the white people.
(d) They love the American president.

6. According to Gallimard, how many American dollars were spent for every Viet Cong killed?
(a) Four hundred yen.
(b) Four million dollars.
(c) Four hundred dollars.
(d) Four hundred thousand dollars.

7. According to Gallimard, who do the Orientals want to be associated with?
(a) Ho Chi Minh.
(b) China and only China.
(c) America.
(d) Whoever shows the most strength and power.

8. What is one of the things about Song that Gallimard considers to be rare?
(a) She listens to him.
(b) She sings like a bird.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She will pleasure him.

9. Finish the sentence: "We must conserve our strength for the battles..."
(a) "...we can win."
(b) "...we know how to battle."
(c) "...we can't lose."
(d) "...we know of."

10. Where does Scene 10 take place?
(a) A commune.
(b) Mao's palace.
(c) Comrade Chin's home.
(d) Gallimard's flat in Beijing.

11. What does Toulon ask Gallimard to do for him in France?
(a) Make some real money.
(b) Get a good night's sleep.
(c) Sleep with his wife.
(d) Eat a croissant.

12. What does Gallimard start to call Song after their affair starts?
(a) My life.
(b) My love.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) One and Only.

13. What is Renee's profession?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Student.

14. What idea of Song's does Gallimard repeat to Toulon?
(a) The Chinese are kept ignorant equally.
(b) The Chinese miss the old days.
(c) The Chinese culture is rooted two-thousad years in the past.
(d) The Chinese are afraid of power.

15. What is the last thing that Helga says to Gallimard?
(a) "I hope everyone is mean to you for the rest of your life."
(b) "I hope you never find love."
(c) "How horrible I can figure that out."
(d) "I regret everything."

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes between the year Gallimard is fired from the embassy and the year Song travels to France to live with him?

2. What does Toulon find irritating?

3. According to Song, what does Gallimard shame her with?

4. What does the banner state that is unveiled at the end of Act 2, Scene 9?

5. What does Song need from Comrade Chin?

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