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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the doctor find was wrong with Helga?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She is barren.
(d) She is too old to get pregnant.

2. Where does Scene 7 take place?
(a) Helga and Gallimard's house.
(b) Chin's office.
(c) Gallimard and Song's flat.
(d) Toulon's house.

3. What does Song realize Gallimard wants her to do?
(a) To pleasure him.
(b) To leave him.
(c) To want him.
(d) To submit to him.

4. Where does Act 2, Scene 2 take place?
(a) A prison cell.
(b) The streets of Paris.
(c) Gallimard and Butterfly's flat.
(d) Helga's apartment.

5. In what year does Scene 10 take place?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1970.

6. How has life in the West been for Gallimard?
(a) A relaxing situation.
(b) A healthy change.
(c) A disappointment.
(d) Hard work.

7. What does Gallimard feel about his inability to produce a child?
(a) He doesn't care.
(b) God is laughing at him.
(c) He is the woman of the marriage.
(d) God is judging him.

8. According to Marc, how was Gallimard a different man in China?
(a) He loved the perfect woman.
(b) He was gifted.
(c) He was rich.
(d) He was white.

9. Finish the sentence: "We must conserve our strength for the battles..."
(a) "...we can't lose."
(b) "...we know how to battle."
(c) "...we know of."
(d) "...we can win."

10. What does Gallimard ask Song after they talk about Gallimard's conversation with Helga regarding the doctor visit?
(a) If he should leave Helga.
(b) If she wants to have his baby.
(c) If she is happy with him.
(d) If she wants to marry him.

11. What does Gallimard have to say about Chairman Mao's cult?
(a) It has become very strong.
(b) It will die out soon.
(c) It has died out.
(d) It would rule the world very soon.

12. What does Chin want to make sure that Song remembers?
(a) Women are stupid.
(b) Her acts are for the greater good.
(c) Women have no respect in China.
(d) There is no homosexuality in China.

13. What does Gallimard claim about the Chinese?
(a) They love the white people.
(b) They do not like Ho Chi Minh.
(c) They love the American president.
(d) They want to be protected by the Vietnamese.

14. How does Song define the Chinese?
(a) Progressionists.
(b) Realists.
(c) Devils.
(d) Hopeless romantics.

15. What is Renee's profession?
(a) Student.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea of Song's does Gallimard repeat to Toulon?

2. What was NOT waiting for Gallimard back in Paris when he arrived in 1968?

3. What does Chin think about actors?

4. According to Gallimard, how many American dollars were spent for every Viet Cong killed?

5. What happened to Helga on her way home from the grocery store?

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