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

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

3. Who makes the hut from the mats that Wang Lung buys in the city in Chapter 11?
(a) Pear Blossom.
(b) O-lan.
(c) Wang Lung.
(d) Lotus.

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

5. How many sticks of incense does Wang Lung burn at the temple of the earth after his son is born in Chapter 4?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Wang Lung's uncle's wife described in Chapter 4?

2. What food does O-lan give to her two sons as Wang Lung's family departs for their journey in Chapter 10?

3. How much money does Wang Lung pay for the cost of transporting his family to the city in the south in Chapter 11?

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

5. Wang Lung's uncle says to him in Chapter 7, "I am a man of" what?

(see the answer key)

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