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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1—Pages 70-101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuan immediately become aware of when he enters the coastal city?
(a) The streets are filthy.
(b) The differences between rich and poor.
(c) The women are treated different.
(d) That people are very suspicious of his prescence.

2. Who says, "I cannot kill--I am not brave, I know"?
(a) Ai-lan.
(b) Yuan's father.
(c) Ai-lan's mother.
(d) Yuan.

3. Who built the earthen house that Yuan stays?
(a) Yuan's grandfather.
(b) A mysterious man that many fear.
(c) A prominent social figure in the town.
(d) Yuan's father.

4. Who is Wang the Landlord?
(a) One of the tenants Yuan stayed with in the countryside.
(b) Yuan's uncle.
(c) Yuan's classmate.
(d) Yuan's grandfather.

5. What does Yuan discover in his father's room?
(a) His father has left him a large sum of money.
(b) His mother is waiting for him there.
(c) That his father is not there.
(d) The room is completely empty of all furniture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuan's "mother" want to ask Yuan's father?

2. Which character looks at the rich and fat with disdain?

3. Why does Yuan claim he cannot join the revolutionaries?

4. In Chapter 1 when Yuan is laying awake, what is he thinking about?

5. How does Yuan feel about the maid?

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