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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shen Fu bite into, even as the others told him not to do so?
(a) Persimmons.
(b) Apples.
(c) Cherries.
(d) Plums.

2. What color is the rock that is as big as a bed, so Hung-kan lays on it when he and Shen Fu are resting in the village?
(a) Black.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

3. Yun decides that he and Shen Fu should leave at the morning of the ________ night watch in order to avoid capture and humiliation.
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fifth.

4. Jen Village had a flower and ______ festival every twelve years, according to Shen Fu.
(a) Buddha.
(b) Petal.
(c) Immortal.
(d) Fruit.

5. What happened when Shen Fu went to see his father when his father became ill?
(a) His mother died.
(b) Yun left him.
(c) Shen Fu became ill too.
(d) His father died.

6. What does Yun say when Shen Fu makes a comment about the figure of another woman? "__________ have good fortune."
(a) Fat people.
(b) Mean people.
(c) Nice people.
(d) Slim people.

7. Who was about to visit many of the places which Shen Fu has the opportunity to visit in this section of the book?
(a) Yun.
(b) Shen Fu's father.
(c) Shen Fu's mother.
(d) Emperor.

8. Shen Fu points out the ______ of the Cottage of Tranquility, something he feels is heavenly.
(a) Order.
(b) Movement.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Seclusion.

9. Yun's friend was snatched away from her when a business man paid _______ golds for her and promised to take her to her mother.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thousand.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Hundred.

10. Hung-kan tells the boatman that he and Shen Fu aren't just climbing the mountain, but are looking for a place to ___________.
(a) Die.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Study.
(d) Retire.

11. What didn't Shen Fu and his friend Hsin-yueh do during the course of their friendship, according to Shen Fu?
(a) Gamble.
(b) Travel.
(c) Quarrel.
(d) Laugh.

12. What was the name of the girl which Yun had given birth to fourteen years before?
(a) Ching-la.
(b) Ling-chun.
(c) Chun.
(d) Ching-chun.

13. Who suspected Yun of writing something improper about her when she wrote a letter for her?
(a) Shen Fu's father.
(b) Shen Fu's aunt.
(c) Shen Fu's grandmother.
(d) Shen Fu's mother.

14. What happened as Yun did the embroidery for the friend of Shen Fu?
(a) She tried to commit suicide.
(b) She became better.
(c) She died.
(d) She became sicker.

15. The _______ Garden was an area which boasted only a few disorderly piles of stones, according to Shen Fu.
(a) Water.
(b) Land.
(c) Stone.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shen Fu's father wanted to have someone in his home who had the same ____________, according to the book.

2. The gravekeeper made a soup out of __________, which looked like pears when they were dug up from the ground.

3. The famous madam in the area named ________ was also there, dressed up like a flower drum lady.

4. Everywhere that Shen Fu has gone, he has gone while ____________ others, he realizes when he is writing.

5. What was the nickname that Shen Fu's family gave to Yun when she was a part of the family?

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