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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 145 - 192, "Shanghai Murmur" and "Land of Big Numbers").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator see Perry again after giving him what he had been asking for for so long?
(a) A car race.
(b) The library.
(c) The opera.
(d) The grocery store.

2. What does Cao Cao disassemble to make his plane?
(a) A dasiki.
(b) An old jiqirien.
(c) A different plane he made once.
(d) An old car.

3. What work does the narrator of "On the Street Where You Live" do?
(a) Design amusement park rides.
(b) Landscaping.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Construction.

4. What happens when the man upstairs from Xiaolei dies in the story "Shanghai Murmur"?
(a) The whole apartment building cried.
(b) The ceiling fell in.
(c) The authorities came right away to burn the body.
(d) It takes other tenants days to notice.

5. What does Xiaolei's boss at the shop do when she finds out Xiaolei has refused to give the man's item back and then lost it?
(a) Calls the police to arrest her.
(b) Fires her and keeps her last two weeks' wages.
(c) Refers her to a family lawyer.
(d) Beats her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Xiaolei's only regret regarding the item she keeps from the handsome man?

2. What does the narrator's mother say when the narrator's fiance asks where Lulu is?

3. What ride does the narrator insist on taking Lisette on that she refuses to go on?

4. What does Gao's mother say is no excuse for what he and his friends did to Mouse?

5. What does Lulu do compulsively as a child?

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