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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. Who do the Jia family throw a birthday party for?
(a) Qin-shi.
(b) Jia Rui.
(c) Jia Jing.
(d) Jia Qiang.

2. Who warns Yu-cun not to arrest Xue?
(a) Lady Wang.
(b) Feng Yuan.
(c) A monk.
(d) The usher.

3. Who is suffering from a mysterious sickness at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Qin Zhong.
(b) Dai-yu.
(c) Qin-shi.
(d) Bao-yu.

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

5. What belief about Qin-shi does Xi-feng reveal to You-shi?
(a) That Qin-shi will die from her illness.
(b) That Qin-shi will soon fall in love.
(c) That Qin-shi is malingering and not actually sick.
(d) That Qin-shi is a reincarnated ancestor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dai-yu most concerned about on the first day of school?

2. Who are the first people who come across the stone after the goddess leaves it there?

3. Who refuses to attend the birthday party?

4. Who does Zhen Shi-yin live with?

5. What job does Yu-cun learn there is a possibility of getting back?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways are fear of shame and being poor seen in Chapter 6?

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

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

4. Explain the symbol of Greensickness Peak in relation to the rest of the novel.

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

6. Upon their first meeting, do Bao-yu and Dai-yu feel a connection with each other? If so, how is it shown?

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

8. Explore the meaning/possible symbolism behind Bao-yu's experience in the dream in Chapter 5.

9. What can we understand from Zhen Shi-yin's dream in the first chapter?

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

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