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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Scene 10 take place?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1986.

2. 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.

3. What does Toulon find irritating?
(a) America's growing angry attitude.
(b) America moving into Vietnam to grab the territory
(c) France's imperialism.
(d) France's cowardliness.

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

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

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

7. 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 live.
(c) She wants to serve the people.
(d) She wants to live in luxury.

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

9. What did the doctor find was wrong with Helga?
(a) She is sick.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is barren.
(d) She is too old to get pregnant.

10. What does Song say about Chin as she exits?
(a) "What passes as a servant to the people."
(b) "What passes for an officer."
(c) "What passes for a man in modern America.
(d) "What passes for a woman in modern China."

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

12. 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) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Tenty years.

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

14. Who does Comrade Chin report to?
(a) Comrade Kang.
(b) Toulon.
(c) Chairman Mao.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Song call Gallimard's society?

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

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

4. What is NOT one of things that Renee's father imports into the Third World?

5. Which character is watching Scene 7?

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