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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Manna want to learn to ride a bicycle?
(a) In case she moves to Harbin.
(b) To travel more easily across the hospital yard.
(c) To brag to the other nurses about her new skill.
(d) To get in shape.

2. Commissar Wei stops in Muji City on his way to which border?
(a) Chino-Russian.
(b) Chino-Nepal.
(c) Chino-Tibetan.
(d) Nepal-India.

3. What is Ran Su's only condition on allowing Manna and Lin to take Geng Yang out to dinner?
(a) Lin must pay for the meal.
(b) The three must stay together.
(c) They must go out during the day.
(d) Ran Su can attend as well.

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

5. Why can't Manna be transferred to another hospital?
(a) Manna refuses to go.
(b) Lin convinces them not to.
(c) She isn't talented enough.
(d) Too many nurses are in the service.

6. Aside from Latin, what languages must nurses learn to be promoted to assistant doctor?
(a) Russian and German.
(b) Tibetan and Japanese.
(c) English and Japanese.
(d) Japanese and Korean.

7. What lie does Manna write in a letter to Liang Meng that scares him off?
(a) She has a child.
(b) She is divorced.
(c) She has heart disease.
(d) She has an STD.

8. Why does the audience cry during "The Flower Girl"?
(a) The move is violent.
(b) It brings back bad memories.
(c) The main character dies.
(d) The young girls in the movie are crying.

9. When Lin returns to the hospital after failing to ask his wife for a divorce he tells Manna he is too what to spend time with her?
(a) Heartbroken.
(b) Busy.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Ashamed.

10. What do Manna and Liang Meng talk about when they first meet at the hospital?
(a) Politics.
(b) The weather.
(c) Lin.
(d) Grapes.

11. What is the reason Manna gives Lin for wanting to sleep with him?
(a) To get him expelled from the army.
(b) To secure their relationship.
(c) To give him a son.
(d) To get attention from other nurses.

12. What is the purpose of the newspaper article about Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?
(a) To add to the statistics of divorce in China.
(b) To discourage Lin from continuing.
(c) To support Lin's decision.
(d) To criticize the judge.

13. Why does Geng Yang think Lin should sleep with Manna?
(a) For enjoyment.
(b) To have a child.
(c) To make Manna undesirable to other men.
(d) To motivate himself to divorce Shuyu.

14. Where does Lin Kong's wife, Shuyu, live?
(a) Goose Village.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Muji City.
(d) Beijing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geng Yang think Lin should carry out his relationship with Manna?

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

3. At the end of Part 2: Chapter 8, what does Lin regret talking to Manna about?

4. What does Commissar Wei call to tell Ran Su the day after his meeting with Manna?

5. Why does Manna squat over a bucket for so long?

(see the answer keys)

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