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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8 | Part 1, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rumor is going around the hospital about Lin's wife?
(a) She wants to divorce him.
(b) She can't have children.
(c) She is eight years his senior.
(d) She is having an affair with another doctor.

2. When Lin is questioned by the voice in his head about his refusal to sleep with Manna, he says that their relationship is not based on what?
(a) The rules of society.
(b) The flesh.
(c) Love.
(d) What others want.

3. After a chief in the City Administration dies, what does Manna begin to do?
(a) Pressure Lin to divorce his wife.
(b) Pursue a man who will marry her.
(c) Take better care of her health.
(d) Take care of the chief's wife.

4. Why do Lin's comrades object to his long, parted in the middle hairstyle?
(a) Because he looks disheveled.
(b) Because he looks too feminine.
(c) Because he looks too vain.
(d) Because he looks too intellectual.

5. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?
(a) Getting fired from her job.
(b) Becoming seriously ill.
(c) Being sent to a less demanding hospital.
(d) Becoming an old maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long is Lin permitted to return home once a year?

2. Why is Manna hesitant to pursue sleeping with Lin?

3. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?

4. What does Lin compare himself to although he is married?

5. Why can't anyone play cards as the people in Lin's dream do?

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