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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. What does Wang Lung promise to the prostitute who has been visited by Wang Lung's son in Chapter 23?
(a) He will buy her a home if she turns away his son.
(b) He will give her twice the silver for turning his son away.
(c) He will send his uncle to please her.
(d) He will kill her if his son returns.

2. Where does Wang Lung wish to have his second-eldest son apprenticed in Chapter 25?
(a) The blacksmith shop.
(b) The Buddhist temple.
(c) The grain market.
(d) The butcher shop.

3. What does Wang Lung demand from O-lan to give to Lotus in Chapter 19?
(a) Her sapphire necklace.
(b) Her silver ring.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her pearls.

4. Of the silk depictions of women on the walls of the tea house, Wang Lung says in Chapter 18, "I thought they were pictures of dream women, of goddesses in the mountain of" where?
(a) Baiyun.
(b) Kwen Lwen.
(c) Badaling.
(d) Baija.

5. Why does Wang Lung give silver to his uncle's son in Chapter 29?
(a) To fund his college education.
(b) To fund his trip to the city in the south.
(c) To fund his father's funeral.
(d) To prepare to go to war in the north.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Wang Lung's uncle and aunt compared to in Chapter 30?

2. For whom does Wang Lung buy a coffin for also when he purchases one for O-lan in Chapter 26?

3. Whom does Wang Lung describe as "the keeper of" Lotus in Chapter 20?

4. Who is in charge of arranging the marriage for Wang Lung's second-eldest son?

5. How long after O-lan's death is her burial arranged to take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does O-lan say regarding Cuckoo as she lays dying in Chapter 26?

2. How does Wang Lung perceive his family and children in Chapter 17?

3. How is Lotus's arrival at Wang Lung's home described in Chapter 20? Who is present for her arrival?

4. How does Wang Lung respond when he discovers his eldest son in Lotus's court in Chapter 24?

5. Who looks after the arrangement of Wang Lung's second son's marriage in Chapter 29? How are the arrangements described?

6. What does Wang Lung do in order to gain control over his uncle and his family in Chapter 28?

7. What impact does O-lan's illness have on Wang Lung's household in Chapter 26?

8. What does Wang Lung do in preparation for Lotus's arrival at his home in Chapter 20? How is his behavior affected?

9. What is at the root of the conflict between O-lan and Cuckoo in Chapter 21?

10. What leads Wang Lung to send his eldest sons away to school in Chapter 17?

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