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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. Who built the Temple of the Earth where Wang Lung burns incense after his wedding?
(a) Wang Lung's grandfather.
(b) Wang Lung's uncle.
(c) Old Master Hwang.
(d) Wang Lung's father.

2. How much money does Wang Lung take home after his first day of working in the city in Chapter 11?
(a) A penny.
(b) 2 silver coins.
(c) 10 silver coins.
(d) 5 pence.

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

4. Who turns the villagers against Wang Lung during the hard times after the drought in Chapter 8?
(a) Ching.
(b) O-lan.
(c) Wang Lung's uncle.
(d) Liu.

5. Why does Wang Lung go to confront his uncle's wife in Chapter 7?
(a) Because her sons are disrupting the town.
(b) Because he is in love with her.
(c) Because he hopes to take a second wife.
(d) Because he feels his female cousin should be married off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did O-lan live as a child?

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

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

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

5. What is the vehicle called that Wang Lung's family takes to the city in the south in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Wang Lung and O-lan go on the second day of the New Year in Chapter 5?

2. What about Wang Lung's uncle's family vexes Wang Lung in Chapter 7?

3. What event leads Wang Lung to stop working as a rickshaw driver in Chapter 14?

4. What is depicted on the fliers that Wang Lung is handed in Chapter 14?

5. How does Wang Lung respond when he discovers O-lan's jewels in Chapter 16?

6. How does O-lan describe the fall of the House of Hwang in Chapter 5?

7. What event leads to Wang Lung's decision that he must take his family back to the land in Chapter 12?

8. How does Wang Lung's uncle respond when Wang Lung yells at him in Chapter 7?

9. What does Wang Lung vow to do in regards to his land in Chapter 6?

10. How has Wang Lung's fate changed in Chapter 8? How does he respond to this change of fate?

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