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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) Beauty.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Little One.
(d) Lovely One.

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

3. How much does Pinkerton pay for Butterfly?
(a) 100 dollars.
(b) 100 yen
(c) 200 dollars.
(d) 200 yen.

4. During the Revolution, what signs would hang in the windows of the clubs in Shanghai?
(a) "Whites only."
(b) "No dogs and Chinamen."
(c) "No women allowed."
(d) "No dogs or cats."

5. What is Song afraid of as she is entertaining Gallimard in her parlor?
(a) Love.
(b) Hoping for too much.
(c) Scandal.
(d) A beating from her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Scene 8 take place?

2. What is the setting of Scene 2?

3. What did Helga want to know about Song's performance Gallimard had seen that night?

4. What is the setting of Scene 12?

5. What does Marc compare a pool full of naked women to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Gallimard want to see Song fully naked?

3. After seeing Song for the first time on stage, how does Gallimard react to her?

4. What does Gallimard mean when he says he has become a celebrity?

5. What does Gallimard's experience with Isabelle reflect his sex life as a whole?

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

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

8. Describe the character of Renee.

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

10. What seems to be other people's opinion of Gallimard? Does he reflect that same opinion?

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