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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 observation of how Geng Yang speaks?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Simply.
(c) Egotistical.
(d) Unrestrained.

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

3. At the restaurant, what is Geng Yang's advice for Lin to encourage his wife to consent to a divorce?
(a) He refuses to sleep with her.
(b) He bribes the judge.
(c) He threatens Shuyu.
(d) He pays Shuyu.

4. What does Ren ask Lin to bring home from the hospital to help his son's stomach?
(a) Pepto Bismuth.
(b) Tower Candy.
(c) Club Soda.
(d) Alka-Seltzer.

5. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?
(a) Getting fired from her job.
(b) Being sent to a less demanding hospital.
(c) Becoming seriously ill.
(d) Becoming an old maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie does Manna write in a letter to Liang Meng that scares him off?

2. Why does the group congregate outside the courthouse after Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?

3. What does Lin's cousin ask for in his letter?

4. What reason does Lin give Shuyu for wanting a divorce?

5. What does Commissar Wei ask the hospital to recommend for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Manna help Lin put dust covers on his books?

2. How does Manna begin to advance on Lin?

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

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

5. Why has Lin doubted himself of being a "normal" man? How does he gauge "normal?"

6. Why does Lin think an attempt to pay Shuyu or Bensheng for a divorce would fail?

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

8. What is the crowd at the courthouse defending when they are scolding Lin?

9. Why is Lin ashamed that he asks Manna to share the cost of the bribe?

10. How is Manna extremely selfish in the beginning of Chapter 7?

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