2. What does Meilan do when a wife tries to offend her?
(a) She speaks loudly to the husband.
(b) She embraces the husband.
(c) She screams at the wife.
(d) She whispers insults to the wife.

3. What is like an old house on fire?
(a) An old man in love.
(b) An old woman in love.
(c) An arranged marriage.
(d) A marriage of passion.

4. How successful were the women's attempts to arrange their children together?
(a) A few of them are still happily married.
(b) They are all still married.
(c) They were all married but are now divorced.
(d) None of them worked.

5. Why do some of Mrs. Tang's friends envy her?
(a) Her hair is glossy.
(b) She has freedom.
(c) She has great wealth.
(d) Her son is successful.

6. What plan did the women make together?
(a) To open their own school together.
(b) To become connected by marriage.
(c) To run away to another country.
(d) To swap around their grandchildren.

7. Which author's books does Mrs. Mo have a full collection of?
(a) Agatha Christie.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Dean Koontz.
(d) Stephen King.

8. What is Mei known for?
(a) Being sentimental.
(b) Being outspoken.
(c) Blushing all the time.
(d) Her coy smile.

9. What drives the boy hero into madness?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) A history of drug abuse.
(c) Interrogations.
(d) Losing his business.

10. What does the girl not foresee?
(a) The late nightfall.
(b) The tenacity of a lonely man.
(c) The closing time of the pharmacy.
(d) The early sunset.

11. Why does Meilan have to use Mr. Chang's nickname?
(a) The police force everyone to use it.
(b) Her mother says it is more polite.
(c) Her younger sister gave him the name.
(d) Mr. Chang asks her to.

12. How does Meilan escape her parents' nagging?
(a) She dances at Twilight Club.
(b) She comes home late from work.
(c) She hits on older men.
(d) She walks along the river.

13. Where did the man's wife have a tumor?
(a) The stomach.
(b) The liver.
(c) The brain.
(d) Her left breast.

14. What saddens Ailin about Ying?
(a) She will not inherit the family restaurant.
(b) She cannot dream as much as she did.
(c) She will not pay her friends.
(d) She did not ask permission to reprint the old photo.

15. How does Mrs. Mo seem not to fit with the group?
(a) She is good at tennis.
(b) She was never married.
(c) She looks like a film star.
(d) She does not know how to dance.