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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who called Guan on her last night alive say?

2. What do Wang and Chen discuss over their meal in Chapter 11?

3. What does Yu want to focus on instead of the case in Chapter 10?

4. Wu Xiaoming had once photographed Guan for a _________.

5. At what time on the night she died did Guan's neighbor see her leave her dorm with a suitcase?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Zhang do with Chen's poem that he finds?

2. What does Detective Yu learn about Guan through interviewing her co-workers and neighbors?

3. How does the information given to Chen by Uncle Bao and Wei Hong match up?

4. How is Chen feeling about the case at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. What does Lu ask Chen for at the housewarming party, and what does Chen's response suggest about their relationship?

6. How can Wu's photography career be described?

7. How does the murder victim's profession change the whole tone of the investigation?

8. How is the body at the center of the book's crime found?

9. What does Chen find when he returns to Guan's dormitory for the third time?

10. How can the era that "Death of a Red Heroine" is set in be described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many characters help Chen in his investigation, and without their help, he likely would never have been able to solve the crime. Which three characters do you feel were most instrumental in assisting Chen in solving the mystery of Guan's murder?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss which characters are main characters verses secondary characters, and how you distinguished between the two.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the motives of any two of the following characters:

• Chen

• Yu

• Wu

• Old Hunter

• Wang

• Zhang

• Ling

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