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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Song say she wants to do now that her life as an actor is over?
(a) She wants to act.
(b) She wants to serve the people.
(c) She wants to live in luxury.
(d) She wants to live.

2. What does Chin think about actors?
(a) They're all weirdos.
(b) They're all poor people.
(c) They're all women.
(d) They're all homosexuals.

3. What does Song tell Gallimard he was to her?
(a) Her greatest love.
(b) Her greatest acting challenge.
(c) Her only way out of China.
(d) Her greatest lie.

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

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

6. 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 a woman is too smart to act.
(c) Song believes women can't act.
(d) Song believes China wants to keep women unstimulated.

7. What does Gallimard feel about his inability to produce a child?
(a) He is the woman of the marriage.
(b) God is judging him.
(c) God is laughing at him.
(d) He doesn't care.

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

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

10. What does Song realize Gallimard wants her to do?
(a) To want him.
(b) To submit to him.
(c) To pleasure him.
(d) To leave him.

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

12. According to Marc, how was Gallimard a different man in China?
(a) He was white.
(b) He was gifted.
(c) He was rich.
(d) He loved the perfect woman.

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

14. What does Song need from Comrade Chin?
(a) A baby.
(b) An alibi.
(c) A job.
(d) A new name.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chin want to make sure that Song remembers?

3. Where does Gallimard meet Renee?

4. What does Gallimard want Toulon to tell the Americans?

5. Who do the Vietnamese generals plan on assassinating?

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