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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. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Eighteen years.
(c) Four months.
(d) Two years.

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

3. Why is Manna hesitant to pursue sleeping with Lin?
(a) Because she is a virgin.
(b) Because she doesn't want to get pregnant.
(c) Because she may be expelled from the army.
(d) Because she doesn't want to manipulate Lin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does manna ask to be left behind to die during the hospital camp-and-field training?

2. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?

3. After Lin's father dies, how do his feelings about his wife and marriage change?

4. On the hospital camp-and-field training, what does Lin do to help Manna and the other nurses when they stop for the night?

5. Early in her fixation, what deters Manna's pursuance of Lin?

(see the answer key)

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