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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much yen does Llin have in the bank?
(a) 600 yen.
(b) 2,000 yen.
(c) 1,000 yen.
(d) 45 yen.

3. While recapping her meeting with the commissar, Manna tells Lin Commissar Wei is more like a what than a warrior?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Woman.
(c) Barbarian.
(d) Scholar.

4. Why does the group congregate outside the courthouse after Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?
(a) To ask for divorces themselves.
(b) To pay their taxes.
(c) To support Lin.
(d) To heckle Lin.

5. What is the difference between Lin's side of the room and his roommates' side?
(a) His roommates have news clippings on their walls.
(b) His roommates have photos of celebrities on their walls.
(c) His roommates are very messy.
(d) His roommates have no books.

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 helps convince a commander to let them go home.
(b) He brings them clean clothes.
(c) He gives them advice.
(d) He treats their blistered feet.

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

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

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

10. At the holiday banquet, what does Lin warn Manna not to do so much?
(a) Eat.
(b) Drink.
(c) Talk.
(d) Laugh.

11. What are Lin's conditions on Manna's prospective new fiancé?
(a) He still allows them to see each other.
(b) She is promoted and goes to college.
(c) He takes her far away.
(d) He doesn't ever divorce her.

12. What American poet does Commissar Wei recommend to Manna?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

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

14. What does Commissar Wei ask the hospital to recommend for him?
(a) An apartment to rent in Muji City.
(b) A good movie.
(c) A good medicine for back pain.
(d) A nurse or doctor to marry.

15. When the hospital goes to see the film, how does Manna act regarding feelings for Lin?
(a) She tells him outright.
(b) She keeps them a secret.
(c) Lin feels curious of her feelings.
(d) She is very indiscreet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Manna hit while riding her bike home one night?

2. Who is Lin's new roommate when he gets tuberculosis?

3. What is the reason Manna gives Lin for wanting to sleep with him?

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

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

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