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

2. Who does Lin believe is the key player in making his divorce successful?
(a) Ran Su.
(b) Bensheng.
(c) Manna.
(d) Shuyu.

3. If Manna's parents had lived, she thinks they could have been ________.
(a) Inadequate parents.
(b) Adventurous travelers.
(c) Famous writers.
(d) High-ranking officials.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Manna be transferred to another hospital?

2. On the hospital camp-and-field training, what does Lin do to help Manna and the other nurses when they stop for the night?

3. What rare food does Bensheng bring to Lin's house?

4. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?

5. What are Lin's conditions on Manna's prospective new fiancé?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship Manna Wu invents between Lin Kong and Pinging Ma? Why does Manna think Pingping is more appealing to Lin than she is?

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

3. Why doesn't Geng Yang cry during "The Flower Girl?" What conclusion does Manna draw about him?

4. What draws and repels Manna and Liang Meng to and from each other?

5. What makes Lin hesitate to divorce his wife?

6. How does Manna begin to advance on Lin?

7. After Lin begins to try in earnest to divorce Shuyu, what are the new dilemmas that arise?

8. Why is Manna's meeting with Commissar Wei very pleasant?

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

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

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