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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. Why did Ji Li stop going to school all together?

2. What did Ji Li do when she was injured?

3. Why was Ji Li happy to not know anybody in her Jr. High class?

4. What secret did Ji Li tell Lin Lin when she visited?

5. Where did Ji Li request summer work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Zhang Xin say when he first met Ji Li?

2. Why was Ji Li forced to go back to Shang Hai in the summer?

3. What did Ji Li hear her father say the night before Chinese New Year?

4. What happened in Ji Li's study session?

5. What did Ji Li learn how to raise in Jr. High, and why?

6. Why did Lin Lin come to visit Ji Li?

7. What did Zhang tell Ji Li when she asked about being chosen to help with the Exhibition?

8. What was Dad doing while he was locked up, and why?

9. Why did Ji Li choose to spend her summer working in the rice fields?

10. What happened to An Yi's mother at work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Death and mortality were two integral themes of this plot. What are some of the key examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this theme affect the main characters?

Essay Topic 2

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was the plot altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the ways Mother and Father showed their love to each other, and how did these displays affect Ji Li's ideas about life?

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