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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. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four months.
(d) Eighteen years.

3. 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 support Lin's decision.
(c) To discourage Lin from continuing.
(d) To criticize the judge.

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

5. What does Manna compare herself to at the prospect of her engagement to Commissar Wei?
(a) A princess.
(b) A thief.
(c) A flower in bloom.
(d) A prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Lin's new roommate when he gets tuberculosis?

3. How much yen does Llin have in the bank?

4. At the holiday banquet, what does Lin warn Manna not to do so much?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the two men in Manna's life in Chapter 4 leave her between a rock and a hard place?

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

7. What about Lin's response to Manna's prospective engagement make him rethink his attachment?

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

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

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

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