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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Chin want to make sure that Song remembers?
(a) Women have no respect in China.
(b) Women are stupid.
(c) There is no homosexuality in China.
(d) Her acts are for the greater good.

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

5. What does Gallimard want Toulon to tell the Americans?
(a) The Americas should protectthe Orient.
(b) There is a natural affinity between America and France.
(c) There is a bond of trust between the East and West.
(d) There is a natural affinity between the West and the Orient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gallimard want after Song announces she is pregnant?

2. In the end, what was a reason for Gallimard's refusal to go to the doctor?

3. What happened to Helga on her way home from the grocery store?

4. 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?

5. What does Gallimard feel about his inability to produce a child?

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