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

2. Why does Shuyu ask to spend the night with Lin one night when he is home?
(a) She misses him when he is away.
(b) She is afraid of the dark.
(c) She wants to give him a son.
(d) She doesn't want to share her room with their houseguests.

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

4. Why does Manna find Geng Yang "interesting?"
(a) He has a strange body.
(b) He is very kind.
(c) He speaks with an accent.
(d) He is very masculine.

5. What unnerves Manna about Geng Yang when she sees him at the bus stop?
(a) His flirtatious attitude.
(b) His grin.
(c) His quietness.
(d) His clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Early in her fixation, what deters Manna's pursuance of Lin?

2. What is Lin's concern about Manna becoming engaged to another man?

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

4. What controversial items does Manna see in Lin's room?

5. After a chief in the City Administration dies, what does Manna begin to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why won't Manna report her rape?

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

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

6. Since Manna and Lin broke up, what has Manna been doing to spite Lin? How does this reach its climax in Chapter 10?

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

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

10. What does Lin's daydream about the nurses say about him?

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