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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Wang Lung's ox in Chapter 8?
(a) Lotus.
(b) Wang Lung's uncle.
(c) O-lan.
(d) Wang Lung's aunt.

2. What does the barber suggest Wang Lung have removed on his wedding day?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His earrings.
(c) His nose-ring.
(d) His braid.

3. How many seed beans came up for Wang Lung's uncle of the twenty that he planted this year in Chapter 7?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. What presumably happens to Wang Lung's daughter that is born in Chapter 9?
(a) Wang Lung kills her.
(b) She is stillborn.
(c) She is taken by soldiers.
(d) O-lan kills her.

5. Where did O-lan live as a child?
(a) Dalian.
(b) Fuzhou.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Shantung.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O-lan remark to Wang Lung about the child she has just given birth to in Chapter 7?

2. Who built the Temple of the Earth where Wang Lung burns incense after his wedding?

3. Of what drug does the Old Mistress partake during Wang Long's visit to retrieve his wife in Chapter 1?

4. What does Wang Lung define one's land as being in Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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