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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wang Lung vow he must do in the end of Chapter 12?
(a) Remarry.
(b) Return to his land.
(c) Sell his daughter into slavery.
(d) Kill himself.

2. How many sleeping mats does Wang Lung purchase to fashion into a hut for his family in the city in Chapter 11?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

3. What does Wang Lung go to eat before taking his bride from the House of Hwang in Chapter 1?
(a) Bread.
(b) Noodles.
(c) Rice.
(d) Potatoes.

4. How much do each of the eggs cost that Wang Lung purchases after his son is born?
(a) 4 pence.
(b) 1 penny.
(c) 2 pence.
(d) 5 pence.

5. What does Wang Lung begin referring to his daughter as in Chapter 9?
(a) Poor fool.
(b) Lotus.
(c) Cuckoo.
(d) Pear Blossom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many seed beans came up for Wang Lung's uncle of the twenty that he planted this year in Chapter 7?

2. Whom does O-lan suggest Wang Lung buy land from instead of from the House of Hwang in Chapter 5?

3. What presumably happens to Wang Lung's daughter that is born in Chapter 9?

4. Who makes the hut from the mats that Wang Lung buys in the city in Chapter 11?

5. How old is Wang Lung's female cousin that he and his uncle discuss in Chapter 7?

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