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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lin observe about Ran Su's feet?
(a) They are worn and calloused.
(b) They are swollen.
(c) They are feminine.
(d) They are abnormally large.

2. When Ran Su is cautioning Lin about his relationship with Mann, what does he mean by "abnormal" relationship?
(a) Platonic.
(b) Polygamist.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Abusive.

3. What does Lin compare himself to although he is married?
(a) A bachelor.
(b) An adulterer.
(c) A widower.
(d) A ladies' man.

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 disheveled.
(c) Because he looks too feminine.
(d) Because he looks too vain.

5. Who does Manna hit while riding her bike home one night?
(a) Lin.
(b) Haiyan.
(c) Ran Su's wife.
(d) Ran Su.

6. On the hospital camp-and-field training, what does Lin do to help Manna and the other nurses when they stop for the night?
(a) He gives them advice.
(b) He helps convince a commander to let them go home.
(c) He brings them clean clothes.
(d) He treats their blistered feet.

7. When Liang Meng and Manna meet alone in the city, whose poetry does he quote?
(a) Chen Zi'ang.
(b) Mao.
(c) Li Po.
(d) Xiao Gang.

8. What is Commissar Wei's reason for wanting to discontinue his relationship with Manna?
(a) She has poor handwriting.
(b) He knows about her and Lin.
(c) She is too old.
(d) She smells bad.

9. Why does Geng Yang ask Manna to come to his room?
(a) So she can help him pack.
(b) To give her a present.
(c) To say goodbye.
(d) So he can give her Lin's books.

10. What do the villagers in Goose Village think of Shuyu?
(a) She is rude.
(b) She is a bad mother.
(c) She is unfaithful.
(d) She is perfect.

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

12. Which revolutionary party is Manna interested in joining?
(a) The Red Party.
(b) The Revolution Workers.
(c) The Red Union.
(d) The Maoist Union.

13. After Lin's father dies, how do his feelings about his wife and marriage change?
(a) He should remain married out of respect for his parents.
(b) He no longer needs to be married to Shuyu.
(c) He realizes life is short and he should live how he wants.
(d) He realizes life is short and he wants to stay with his wife.

14. Why does Manna find Geng Yang "interesting?"
(a) He is very masculine.
(b) He has a strange body.
(c) He speaks with an accent.
(d) He is very kind.

15. What is Geng Yang's response to "The Flower Girl"?
(a) He is unaffected.
(b) He criticizes the acting.
(c) He cries.
(d) He is overwhelmed with emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prognosis for Lin's tuberculosis?

2. What rare food does Bensheng bring to Lin's house?

3. What does the judge require Lin bring to him before the divorce hearing can continue?

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

5. After being deployed, what does Mai Dong write to Manna to tell her?

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