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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. By what other name does Pinkerton's wife go?
(a) Lovely One.
(b) Little One.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Beauty.

2. Who is in the framed picture that Gallimard picks up?
(a) Song.
(b) Song's father
(c) Song's son.
(d) Song's grandfather.

3. According to Gallimard, who wrote Madame Butterfly?
(a) Giuseppe Verdi.
(b) Giacomo Puccini.
(c) Richard Wagner.
(d) William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

4. According to Gallimard, how does Manuel Toulon think of himself?
(a) As God.
(b) As a servant of the people.
(c) As a proud boss.
(d) As a mother hen.

5. Who are the two main characters of the opera, Madame Butterfly?
(a) Cio-Cio-San and Suzuki.
(b) Cio-Cio-San and Sharpless.
(c) Pinkerton and his American wife.
(d) Pinkerton and Cio-Cio-San

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the job that Gallimard is promoted to?

2. What does Song say is different about Gallimard that made him stand out in her audience?

3. What is different about the night that occurs in Scene 10?

4. Why did Isabelle have sex with Gallimard?

5. How much time has passed since Gallimard's last meeting with Song by Scene 13?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the character of Manuel Toulon.

3. Why does Helga want Gallimard to visit the doctor? How do their wants differ in Act 2, Scene 5?

4. What did Song mean when she said the fascination Caucasian men have for Oriental women is always "imperialist?"

5. 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?

6. How has Helga's opinion on China changed when she and Gallimard return to France?

7. How does Song talk Gallimard out of marriage?

8. What is the nature of Gallimard's experiment with Song? Why does he decide to treat her in this fashion?

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

10. Why does Song speak in Italian at the end of Act 1?

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