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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of baby does Song want to present to Gallimard?
(a) A beautiful baby.
(b) A baby boy.
(c) A big baby.
(d) A baby with brown eyes.

3. According to the commentary that Gallimard reads in Act 2, Scene 1, what does every man want to do to Pinkerton when they watch Madame Butterfly?
(a) Shake his hand.
(b) Hug him.
(c) Kick him.
(d) Kill him.

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

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

6. What did Gallimard envision when he walked toward Song to strip her?
(a) Helga.
(b) Renee.
(c) Pinkerton leaving Butterfly.
(d) Pinkerton stalking Butterfly.

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

8. Where does Act 2, Scene 2 take place?
(a) The streets of Paris.
(b) Helga's apartment.
(c) Gallimard and Butterfly's flat.
(d) A prison cell.

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

10. In what city does Scene 6 take place?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Marseille
(d) Beijing

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

12. As Chin enters, what does Gallimard beg of the audience?
(a) To love Song despite her betrayal.
(b) To side with whoever they see fit.
(c) To judge Song for what she is doing.
(d) To try to see it from his point of view,

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Renee's profession?

2. What does Gallimard have to say about Chairman Mao's cult?

3. What idea of Song's does Gallimard repeat to Toulon?

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

5. What does Chin think about actors?

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