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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 do Yuan's reasons for staying at the home of the old tenants demonstrate?
(a) That he always follows his mother's advice.
(b) That he is like his father in reasoning.
(c) That he is willing to work hard to make a living.
(d) That he has a lot to gain from the wisdom of the old tenants.

2. What does Yuan think of the poor people in the city?
(a) He wants to invite a group of them in for food.
(b) He has no opinion of them.
(c) He would rather have them dead than bothering him on the streets.
(d) He doesn't want them around him, but doesn't want them to die.

3. What does the maid write in her letter to Yuan?
(a) That he must join the revolutionaries.
(b) That she desperately wants to marry him.
(c) That she loves him but doesn't need marriage.
(d) That she will meet him at the pleasure house.

4. Which character looks at the rich and fat with disdain?
(a) Ai-lan.
(b) Sheng.
(c) Yuan.
(d) Meng.

5. Who says, "almost I understand how sons kill their fathers in these days"?
(a) Yuan's father.
(b) Ai-lan's mother.
(c) Yuan.
(d) Yuan's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when Yuan arrives at his father's house?

2. How does Yuan feel when he wears his new clothes and looks in the mirror?

3. How does Yuan respond to his father's reaction to his appearance?

4. Why are guards accompanying Yuan on his way back home?

5. What is Sheng's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one thing that does not cut off Yuan from the poor around him?

2. When Yuan watches Wang the Tiger warm his hands by the fire and sees how frail he looks, how does he feel about him?

3. What does Yuan do while he is in the countryside?

4. What does the letter from Yuan's father in Chapter 1 say, and what is Yuan's reaction to it?

5. When Yuan befriends the farmer who teaches him to use the hoe, why does he keep the relationship a secret?

6. Why is Yuan so proud to call Ai-lan's mother his own mother?

7. Why does Yuan have reservations about joining the revolutionary cause?

8. How does the maid turn into yet another trap for Yuan's freedom?

9. How does Yuan try to run away from himself?

10. When Yuan is sitting by his ill father at the fire, what causes Yuan to start to resent him again?

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