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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement does O-lan make regarding the rich in Chapter 16?
(a) "The rich are delicate."
(b) "The rich are always overbearing."
(c) "The rich are always afraid."
(d) "The rich are welcome anywhere."

2. 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 hopes to take a second wife.
(c) Because he is in love with her.
(d) Because he feels his female cousin should be married off.

3. Where does Wang Lung hide when he observes soldiers seizing his fellow laborers from the streets in Chapter 14?
(a) A butcher shop.
(b) A temple.
(c) A hot water shop.
(d) A pipe store.

4. Whom does Wang Lung's second-eldest son say his older brother has been going out with at night in Chapter 23?
(a) His cousin.
(b) Ching.
(c) Liu.
(d) Lotus.

5. 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) Baiyun.
(b) Badaling.
(c) Kwen Lwen.
(d) Baija.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much do each of the eggs cost that Wang Lung purchases after his son is born?

2. Where did O-lan live as a child?

3. How does Wang Lung respond to the news that O-lan is pregnant in Chapter 2?

4. What does O-lan refuse to leave out for Cuckoo in the mornings in Chapter 21?

5. What does Wang Lung purchase to dye the eggs with in Chapter 4?

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