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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 is the relationship between Yun and Shen Fu when they first meet during their lives?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Friends.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Classmates.

2. Shen Fu thinks that when laying out a landscape, it should be a goal to give the feeling of the small in the ______________.
(a) Smaller spaces.
(b) Sky.
(c) Small.
(d) Large.

3. What does Shen Fu say should be different in height, but they should also be in proportion to each other so there is an attractive relationship between them?
(a) Petals.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Branches.
(d) Stands.

4. In what city was Shen Fu born, according to the introduction of the book?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Soochow.
(d) Beijing.

5. How many records seem to be missing from the manuscript which has been compiled about Shen Fu's life?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a person the Chinese culture who was a lover, but her sexual favors were not necessarily for sale?

2. What was the sound that Shen Fu associated with cranes flying around in the air when he was a child?

3. The neighbor asks Yun if she knows the __________ with whom Shen Fu was drinking the night before, as they are on the return trip.

4. Shen Fu decided to restore a peasant girl to her family when a man of influence wants to make her a _________.

5. Hsing-lan was drunk, but he said that he could paint the flowers' ____________ even if he could not paint the portrait.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shen Fu try to describe about the potting and the arrangement of flowers?

2. Why does the teacher send Shen Fu home in order to write his compositions for school, according to the book?

3. Why was Shen Fu's favorite orchid destroyed, according to the story that Shen Fu is writing?

4. What does Shen Fu think that people with modest homes should try to do with their homes and their arrangements?

5. What does Shen Fu describe doing when he was a child when he was lying on the grass?

6. What does Shen Fu imagine the bug is when he is observing it out in nature, according to the book?

7. What are the other two favorite flowers of Shen Fu, which he describes in the story according to the way he arranges them and pots them?

8. What is the job that Shen Fu takes on within the government, as a result of his education?

9. How does Shen Fu describe the cleverness of Yun when he talks about her life and her upbringing?

10. What is the gift from a friend that Shen Fu receives when he is younger, which causes him to go into a lot of detail?

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