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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Song call Gallimard?
(a) A wimp.
(b) A cad.
(c) A tiger.
(d) An idiot.

2. What does Gallimard say about Song's performance?
(a) It is the first time he understands her death.
(b) It is the first time he sees the truth of the story.
(c) It is the first time he is angry at Pinkerton.
(d) It is the first time he sees the beauty of the story.

3. In what year does Scene 12 take place?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1960.

4. Where does Scene 8 take place?
(a) A prison cell and the streets of Paris.
(b) The Chinese opera house and the streets of Beijing.
(c) The Ambassador's home.
(d) The President's home.

5. Finish the sentence: "...there's no guarantee of failure in life like ________"
(a) "...failure as a child."
(b) "...happiness in high school."
(c) "...a depressing mairage."
(d) "...finding happiness in love."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toulon believe about Gallimard?

2. What does Song tell Gallimard she feels about his presence?

3. Why did Gallimard cease to call on Song?

4. What does Song say is undervalued in the West?

5. What event is going on in Scene 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the end, who does Gallimard cast as the role of Madame Butterfly? Why?

2. Why does Toulon approve of Gallimard's infidelity?

3. Describe the character of Manuel Toulon.

4. What is the premise for Gallimard's favorite musical, Madame Butterfly?

5. In the story of Madame Butterfly, how is Butterfly treated by Pinkerton?

6. Why does Toulon choose to put forth Gallimard's choices and opinions to his superiors in intelligence instead of his own?

7. Is it ever clear if Gallimard knew Song was a man?

8. What is Gallimard's relationship with Marc?

9. What does Song say she wants to do by the end of her encounter with Chin in Act 2, Scene 9? Is this her own choice?

10. In the plot of the opera Madame Butterfly, what is the relationship between Pinkerton and Sharpless? How does that story relate to Gallimard?

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