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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 the college students hint to the man?
(a) They would like to chat with him.
(b) He has no chance with the young girl.
(c) His breath smells.
(d) He is intruding on their space.

2. Where did the six women first meet?
(a) At the bank where they worked.
(b) During a house fire evacuation.
(c) At a local park.
(d) Where they went to school.

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

4. What did Mrs. Lu guard?
(a) A bank cubicle.
(b) A girl's dorm.
(c) A school playground.
(d) An office block.

5. What was Mr. Chang's research institute trying to build?
(a) The country's first passenger jet.
(b) The country's first missile.
(c) The country's first tank.
(d) The country's first nuclear reactor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Mrs. Fan about divorce?

2. What does the girl buy in the store?

3. Who was the most eager to find a foreign life?

4. Who looks like months-old apples?

5. Where did the man's wife have a tumor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connects the women?

2. How does the story end?

3. Why is Ailin alone?

4. What happens when they are approached by a man?

5. What is Sweeping Past about?

6. Why does the old man approach the girl?

7. What is the girl's situation?

8. What is the metaphor of A House Fire?

9. What is Number Three, Garden Road about?

10. How do the six women plan to deal with house fires?

(see the answer keys)

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