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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. Where is Dai-yu to reside?
(a) In boarding school.
(b) The Jia family residence.
(c) At her mother's family's estate.
(d) At a convent.

2. Who starts school at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Qin Zhong and Dai-yu.
(b) Bao-yu and Qin Zhong.
(c) Bao-chai and Bao-yu.
(d) Dai-yu and Bao-yu.

3. What happens to Jia Rui at the time of his first secret meeting?
(a) He has sex with a prostitute.
(b) He gets drunk.
(c) He meets his beloved.
(d) He is left sitting in the cold all night.

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

5. What do the more ill-bred students do in light of the headmaster's absence?
(a) Take the chance to skip school and invite Qin Zhong, Bao-yu, Darling, and Precious.
(b) Cheat on their exams with Dai-yu.
(c) Take the chance to skip school.
(d) Take the chance to pick on Qin Zhong, Bao-yu, Darling, and Precious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the prestigious family about which the story is told?

2. What belief about Qin-shi does Xi-feng reveal to You-shi?

3. Who does the headmaster leave in charge of the school while he is on leave?

4. Which character from earlier in the book resurfaces working as a maid under the name Caltrop?

5. Bao-yu and Qin Zhong form a plan to encourage their families to send them to _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bao-yu use family ties to his advantage during the events at the school?

2. How does the connection between Bao-yu and Bao-chai deepen in Chapter 7?

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

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

5. What events surrounding the trial in Chapter 4 illustrate further the Jia family's decline?

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

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

8. What can be understood from Chinese diplomatic culture when considering Bao-yu's meeting with Prince Qinzhong?

9. What is your opinion of Aroma's decision to allow Bao-yu to "have his way" with her following her discovery of his dream?

10. 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.

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