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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. From what country is the family this story is about?
(a) Japan.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) China.

2. What job does Yu-cun learn there is a possibility of getting back?
(a) Servant.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Mandarin.
(d) Chef.

3. What does the monk promise to do to the stone?
(a) Find it a home.
(b) Take it home.
(c) Carve it.
(d) Inscribe it.

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

5. What do Bao-chai and Zhou Rai's wife talk about at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) The difficult prescription a monk prescribed for Bao-chai's illness.
(b) The simple prescription a monk prescribed for Bao-chai's illness.
(c) Their problems with their children.
(d) Zhou Rai's wife's problems with her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the goddess in the opening chapter?

2. Who reveals sexual feelings for Xi-feng to her around the time of the birthday party?

3. In order to cure Bao-yu of his lust of the mind, he is given a bride named _____.

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

5. Why does Bao-yu make a scene upon returning home from his visit with Bao-chai?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What thematic devices can be drawn from Bao-yu's relationship with women both during his dream and afterward?

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

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

5. 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?

6. In what way does Dai-yu express her jealousy and somewhat obsessive attitude towards Bao-yu in the beginning of Chapter 9?

7. Why does Vanitas change his name to Brother Amor?

8. How does the author make it clear in Chapter 1 that the reader should expect an element of the supernatural in the novel?

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

10. How does superstition appear in the events surrounding Jia Rui?

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