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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 is the setting of Scene 2?
(a) A courtroom.
(b) A flat in China.
(c) The streets of Beijing.
(d) A party in a chic parlor.

2. What did Gallimard believe Song was doing before they part ways at the end of Scene 8?
(a) Flirting.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Crying.
(d) Laughing.

3. What does Gallimard ask Song?
(a) "Why me?"
(b) "Are you my Butterfly?"
(c) "Who is Butterfly?"
(d) "Are you the one?"

4. At what time does Song call Gallimard?
(a) 5:30 AM
(b) 2:00 AM
(c) 4:00 PM
(d) 4:30 PM.

5. What is Gallimard thinking when he is having sex with Isabelle?
(a) "God. So this is it?"
(b) "God. This is wonderful!"
(c) "Help me!"
(d) "I wonder who she is..."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Song wearing when Gallimard enters her apartment?

2. What does Toulon state will not be part of Gallimard's job requirement?

3. What does Butterfly use to kill herself in the opera?

4. What was one outstanding feature about Isabelle that Marc remembers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Chin's plans for Song after her time in the commune?

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

3. Why did Song take so much care in her first appearance to Gallimard when he finds him in France?

4. How does Marc's marriage and his treatment of women and that of Gallimard's differ?

5. During Act 2, Scene 2, Song explains that although China has ruled the world in the past, it would be much more exciting to rule the contemporary world. What does this foreshadow?

6. Why does Song need Chin to acquire a baby for her? What kind of baby does it need to be?

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

8. How does Song talk Gallimard out of marriage?

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

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

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