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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manna NOT question after her dream about Geng Yang?
(a) Why Lin abandoned her.
(b) What could have been.
(c) Geng Yang.
(d) Mai Dong.

2. What does Lin compare the box at the bottom of Manna's closet to?
(a) Religious artifact.
(b) Jewelry box.
(c) Cinerary casket.
(d) Suitcase.

3. Why does Lin caution Manna about revealing anymore to Haiyan?
(a) She is a secret agent.
(b) She is forgetful.
(c) She is unreliable.
(d) She is idiotic.

4. As Manna's pregnancy progresses, she becomes more and more ______.
(a) Passionate.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Grumpy.
(d) Remorseful.

5. What do Manna's symptoms of her bad heart resemble?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Pneumonia.

6. What also happens as the twins' dysentery is cured?
(a) They eat more.
(b) They sleep better.
(c) They fight and cry more.
(d) They start to talk.

7. What makes Lin realize he is getting old?
(a) His eyes are failing.
(b) He celebrates his 60th birthday.
(c) He is not very virile.
(d) He is having strange dreams.

8. Why do Lin and Manna sleep peacefully at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) The hospital grounds are silent.
(b) They take a sleeping pill.
(c) They got a new mattress.
(d) They do not make love.

9. Why does Manna tell Ran Su she wants Lin to stay home more?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is dying.
(c) Lin is in poor health.
(d) Lin is a good cook.

10. Why doesn't Ran Su tell his wife anything?
(a) She is a little crazy and unreliable.
(b) He doesn't like her.
(c) She gossips a lot.
(d) She thinks he is always lying.

11. Where does Hua find a job in Muji City?
(a) A department store.
(b) The match plant.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The hair salon.

12. What is Manna's excuse to the other nurses for looking so sickly the day after the rape?
(a) She is on her period.
(b) She too has tuberculosis.
(c) She ate some bad fish.
(d) She couldn't sleep.

13. What is Bensheng NOT upset about when he comes to Lin's house drunk in the middle of the night?
(a) Lin divorcing Shuyu.
(b) Lin taking Shuyu to the city.
(c) Lin leaving him with nothing.
(d) Lin taking Hua with him.

14. What is Manna sick with before their wedding?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) The flu.
(c) An unknown disease.
(d) A cold.

15. What holiday do Manna and Lin prepare for at the end of "Waiting?"
(a) Spring Festival.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Mao's Birthday.
(d) Chinese New Year.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geng Yang look on television?

2. What made the pus drain after Shuyu's feet were bound?

3. What does Haiyan think Lin's reaction to Manna's rape will be?

4. What are Manna and Lin's twins diagnosed with?

5. What do Manna's eyes look like the day after her rape?

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