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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Helga on her way home from the grocery store?
(a) She is hosed down by some policemen.
(b) She is fascinated by a student's speech.
(c) She sees some policemen beating some students.
(d) She sees people looting a store.

2. Which character is watching Scene 7?
(a) Gallimard.
(b) Chin.
(c) Every character in the cast.
(d) Song.

3. In what years does Scene 5 take place?
(a) 1970-1980
(b) 1961-1963
(c) 1986-present day.
(d) 1960-1965

4. How does Song define the Chinese?
(a) Realists.
(b) Devils.
(c) Progressionists.
(d) Hopeless romantics.

5. What doesn't Renee like about China?
(a) It's an ugly place.
(b) There are no handsome men.
(c) There are too many women.
(d) There's nothing to do at night.

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

7. What does Gallimard call his relationship to Renee?
(a) The right thing to do.
(b) The affair of the century.
(c) A mistake.
(d) An extra extramarital affair.

8. What secret can't Toulon keep from Gallimard?
(a) He has heard Gallimard is leaving his wife.
(b) He knows Song's work.
(c) He wants to fire Gallimard.
(d) He has heard that Gallimard has a native mistress.

9. According to Chin, where does pollution begin?
(a) The West.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) The Orient.

10. Finish Gallimard's sentence: "Oriental women - when they're good they're very good, but when they're bad..."
(a) "...they're Americans."
(b) "...they're women."
(c) "...they're Christians."
(d) "...they're men."

11. What is the name of the baby?
(a) Song.
(b) Long Dong.
(c) Peepee.
(d) Rene.

12. What does Gallimard say his job affects?
(a) A bit of the earth.
(b) A small slice of China.
(c) A large part of the universe.
(d) A small corner of the world.

13. In what year does Scene 8 take place?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1970.

14. What was NOT waiting for Gallimard back in Paris when he arrived in 1968?
(a) Better Chinese food than he'd eaten in China.
(b) Song.
(c) A regular schedule.
(d) Friends and family.

15. What does Chin want to make sure that Song remembers?
(a) Her acts are for the greater good.
(b) Women have no respect in China.
(c) Women are stupid.
(d) There is no homosexuality in China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Gallimard's reasons for wanting to see Song naked?

2. What does Song realize Gallimard wants her to do?

3. What did Gallimard envision when he walked toward Song to strip her?

4. What does Song need from Comrade Chin?

5. What does Gallimard start to call Song after their affair starts?

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