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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 does Bao-yu do when the answer from Dai-yu is "no"?
(a) He laughs loudly.
(b) He begins to cry quietly.
(c) He throws a fit.
(d) He takes her immediately to the pond.

2. Why is the headmaster going on leave?
(a) To meet the Jia family.
(b) He is ill.
(c) To attend business.
(d) To take vacation.

3. Who starts to make regular visits to Qin-shi after the birthday party?
(a) You-shi.
(b) Jia Rui.
(c) Xi-feng.
(d) Bao-yu's father.

4. Who does Dai-yu learn she will be living with even though it is not customary for girls to live with boys?
(a) Fen-cun.
(b) Shi-fen.
(c) Bao-yu.
(d) Chen-li.

5. Where is the party Grandmother Jia and the family held?
(a) At the Ning Mansion.
(b) At the Regal Greenhouse.
(c) At the Cherry Blossom Courtyard.
(d) At the Regal Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who forms deeps friendship with Darling and Precious?

2. What is Grandmother Jia and family invited to?

3. These four friends including Darling and Precious often communicated with each other during studies in a way that they thought _____.

4. Where is Dai-yu to reside?

5. What happens to Jia Rui at the time of his first secret meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hypothesize over the influence Bao-yu's father has on him despite his consistently disapproving attitude towards Bao-yu.

2. How is the divide between rich and poor developed in Chapter 2?

3. Although the Jia family throws a spectacular birthday party for Jia Jing even though he refuses to leave the monastery to attend, much of the conversation centers on Qin-shi's puzzling illness. Hypothesize as to why this is.

4. Why would Dai-yu find it strange that Xi-feng appears to be in charge of household affairs?

5. Discuss briefly the ways in which Dai-yu's personality is developed during her first days in the Jia household.

6. Describe Bao-yu's relationship to alcohol in Chapter 8.

7. Why does Xi-feng hush Bao-yu when he questions the drunken servant cursing the Jia family at the Ning house?

8. What can be understood from the events surrounding the situation at the school in regard to other school children making fun of the boys of the Jia clan?

9. How does the author establish karma as a central theme in Chapter 1?

10. How does the story of Jia Rui teach a lesson about undue lust?

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