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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gallimard want after his encounter with Toulon?
(a) A shoulder to cry on.
(b) Revenge.
(c) A night with Renee.
(d) Hope.

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

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

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

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

6. How has life in the West been for Gallimard?
(a) A relaxing situation.
(b) A disappointment.
(c) Hard work.
(d) A healthy change.

7. What is NOT one of things that Renee's father imports into the Third World?
(a) Hula hoops.
(b) Coffee mugs.
(c) Squirt guns.
(d) Confectioner's sugar.

8. At what point in the plot does Scene 8 pick up?
(a) Song asked Gallimard to leave Helga.
(b) When Song announced she was pregnant.
(c) Song wanted to name the baby Peepee.
(d) Song begged Gallimard to marry her.

9. How does Song respond when Chin asks how Song came to live in an exalted position?
(a) "I was a plaything for a Frenchman!"
(b) "I loved a perfect man!"
(c) "I was a plaything for the white devils!"
(d) "I was a plaything for the Imperialists!"

10. How much time passes between the year Gallimard is fired from the embassy and the year Song travels to France to live with him?
(a) Four years.
(b) One year.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Tenty years.

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

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

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

14. What does the banner read that Comrade Chin enters with?
(a) "The Actor Renounces His Decadent Profession!"
(b) "The Actor Cannot Escape His Fate!"
(c) "The Actor Knows His End is Near!"
(d) "The Actor Denies His Heritage!"

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Gallimard ask Song after they talk about Gallimard's conversation with Helga regarding the doctor visit?

4. What is one of the things about Song that Gallimard considers to be rare?

5. According to Song, what does happiness look like?

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