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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 65-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Meng agreed to do?
(a) Take care of Lao Chen's grandmother.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Stake a large prize in a cricket fighting contest.
(d) Stay with Lao Chen's father when Lao Chen leaves the village.

2. Who kills Fire Star?
(a) Chen's cricket.
(b) Hong's other cricket.
(c) Meng's cricket.
(d) No one.

3. How has Lao Chen's father lost his money?
(a) Bad crops several years in a row.
(b) Drinking and gambling.
(c) His second wife's family.
(d) He never had much money.

4. What does Hong worry about as he and Chen are walking?
(a) The many old men and women who are beggars.
(b) The locusts he sees on the crops.
(c) Whether Chen will listen to him.
(d) The many soldiers on the road.

5. What has Chen done as a result of his mother's tutelage?
(a) Taught his cousin how to read and write.
(b) Created new strains of roses.
(c) Passed the first government examination for a position.
(d) Written a musical score for the emperor.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Zhu Tong ask Hong to deliver a letter?

2. Where do Chen and Hong tell Lao Lu they intend to go?

3. What does Fei Qun ask of the person he visits?

4. What does the magistrate say will happen the next day?

5. What does Chen apply to do in Tianquan?

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