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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Sunset for Humanity," Chapters 22-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Professor Ruan Wen committed suicide in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) By overdosing on sleeping pills.
(b) By jumping into a river.
(c) By hanging herself from a closet door.
(d) By driving her car into a tree.

2. What is the position of the man that Ye Wenjie's mother marries after the Cultural Revolution?
(a) He is a travel agent.
(b) He is a senator.
(c) He is a jet pilot.
(d) He is an education minister.

3. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1, "The Madness Years": "Their red flags fluttered restlessly around the brigade building like flames yearning for firewood"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

4. When did Gottfried Leibniz live?
(a) 1729-1759.
(b) 1629-1689.
(c) 1646-1716.
(d) 1811-1900.

5. Where does Ye Wenjie describe the Chinese Academy of Science's Space Environment Observation Center in Chapter 8, "Ye Wenjie"?
(a) Dongguan.
(b) Shenzhen.
(c) Urumqi.
(d) Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ye Wenjie describe having killed two people in the transcript from Chapter 25, "The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining"?

2. Who is the source of the papers that are presented to Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

3. What setting is established in the opening of Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

4. What does Captain Shi Qiang admit to Wang Miao in the beginning of Chapter 10, "Da Shi"?

5. What does "WMAP" stand for in the narrative?

(see the answer key)

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