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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. Why can't anyone play cards as the people in Lin's dream do?
(a) They are all too busy with work.
(b) Cards are banned.
(c) Because no one ever learned how to play.
(d) The hospital confiscates cards because they are a distraction.

2. What are Lin's conditions on Manna's prospective new fiancé?
(a) He still allows them to see each other.
(b) He doesn't ever divorce her.
(c) She is promoted and goes to college.
(d) He takes her far away.

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

4. Why do Lin's comrades object to his long, parted in the middle hairstyle?
(a) Because he looks too vain.
(b) Because he looks too intellectual.
(c) Because he looks too feminine.
(d) Because he looks disheveled.

5. Why does the group congregate outside the courthouse after Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?
(a) To pay their taxes.
(b) To heckle Lin.
(c) To support Lin.
(d) To ask for divorces themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lin compare himself to although he is married?

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

3. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?

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

5. What does Ren ask Lin to bring home from the hospital to help his son's stomach?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. Why is Lin concerned that Bensheng invites Ren to his house?

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

7. Why won't Manna report her rape?

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

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

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

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