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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did O-lan live as a child?
(a) Dalian.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Fuzhou.
(d) Shantung.

2. Who turns the villagers against Wang Lung during the hard times after the drought in Chapter 8?
(a) Ching.
(b) Wang Lung's uncle.
(c) Liu.
(d) O-lan.

3. Why does Wang Lung go to confront his uncle's wife in Chapter 7?
(a) Because her sons are disrupting the town.
(b) Because he is in love with her.
(c) Because he feels his female cousin should be married off.
(d) Because he hopes to take a second wife.

4. Of the silk depictions of women on the walls of the tea house, Wang Lung says in Chapter 18, "I thought they were pictures of dream women, of goddesses in the mountain of" where?
(a) Badaling.
(b) Baija.
(c) Baiyun.
(d) Kwen Lwen.

5. Who kills Wang Lung's ox in Chapter 8?
(a) Lotus.
(b) Wang Lung's uncle.
(c) Wang Lung's aunt.
(d) O-lan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many seed beans came up for Wang Lung's uncle of the twenty that he planted this year in Chapter 7?

2. Who is the priority in Wang Lung's home when the family is starving in Chapter 9?

3. Wang Lung's uncle says to him in Chapter 7, "I am a man of" what?

4. How long has it been since Wang Lung last saw his eldest son when he comes home to be wed in Chapter 26?

5. What drastic act does Wang Lung do in order to impress Lotus in Chapter 19?

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