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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lin's favorite part of visiting home?
(a) Seeing his daughter.
(b) Working on the farm.
(c) Seeing his wife.
(d) Escaping the city.

2. What controversial items does Manna see in Lin's room?
(a) A stack of journals.
(b) His laundry.
(c) Foreign books.
(d) Pictures of his family.

3. Where did Manna Wu's parents die?
(a) Tibet.
(b) Muji City.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) In their home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lin's brother need to borrow money?

2. Why does Manna want to learn to ride a bicycle?

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

4. What does Liang Meng give as his reason for staying in Muji City for the summer?

5. Aside from Latin, what languages must nurses learn to be promoted to assistant doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lin share Manna's feelings about Geng Yang?

2. Why does Lin discourage Manna from joining any of the revolutionary parties in the hospital?

3. Although a relationship between Manna and Liang Meng is Lin's idea, what is his attitude? Why?

4. How is Lin painted to be at fault through Chapter 9?

5. Why does Shuyu's brother object to Lin's wish for a divorce?

6. How does Lin change the direction of his and Manna's relationship as his divorce seems less and less likely?

7. Why is Manna hesitant to become engaged to Mai Dong before her graduation? What is their deciding factor in holding off their engagement?

8. Why is Manna more embarrassed than heartbroken at Commissar Wei's rejection?

9. Why is Lin's response to "Leaves of Grass" peculiar to his usual tendencies towards literature?

10. What dilemmas do Shuyu's feet make for Lin?

(see the answer keys)

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