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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't anyone play cards as the people in Lin's dream do?
(a) Cards are banned.
(b) Because no one ever learned how to play.
(c) They are all too busy with work.
(d) The hospital confiscates cards because they are a distraction.

2. What is the purpose of the newspaper article about Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?
(a) To criticize the judge.
(b) To support Lin's decision.
(c) To discourage Lin from continuing.
(d) To add to the statistics of divorce in China.

3. What are Lin's conditions on Manna's prospective new fiancé?
(a) He doesn't ever divorce her.
(b) He takes her far away.
(c) She is promoted and goes to college.
(d) He still allows them to see each other.

4. On the hospital camp-and-field training, what does Lin do to help Manna and the other nurses when they stop for the night?
(a) He treats their blistered feet.
(b) He gives them advice.
(c) He helps convince a commander to let them go home.
(d) He brings them clean clothes.

5. Why must Lin accompany Manna and Liang Meng's meeting at the hospital?
(a) To chaperone.
(b) To encourage conversation.
(c) To protect Manna.
(d) To sabotage their relationship.

6. What reason does Lin give Shuyu for wanting a divorce?
(a) She can't bear any more children.
(b) He wants to make a home in the city.
(c) He doesn't want to travel to Goose Village anymore.
(d) He is bored with her.

7. What is Ran Su's only condition on allowing Manna and Lin to take Geng Yang out to dinner?
(a) They must go out during the day.
(b) Ran Su can attend as well.
(c) Lin must pay for the meal.
(d) The three must stay together.

8. What do the villagers in Goose Village think of Shuyu?
(a) She is a bad mother.
(b) She is rude.
(c) She is perfect.
(d) She is unfaithful.

9. While recapping her meeting with the commissar, Manna tells Lin Commissar Wei is more like a what than a warrior?
(a) Woman.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Scholar.

10. What does Manna do for Lin that most fiancées do for their men?
(a) Clean his room.
(b) Take care of him when he's sick.
(c) His laundry.
(d) Sleep with him.

11. What is the difference between Lin's side of the room and his roommates' side?
(a) His roommates have photos of celebrities on their walls.
(b) His roommates have news clippings on their walls.
(c) His roommates have no books.
(d) His roommates are very messy.

12. What American poet does Commissar Wei recommend to Manna?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

13. At the end of Part 2: Chapter 8, what does Lin regret talking to Manna about?
(a) Postponing the divorce.
(b) Finding her a transfer.
(c) Paying Bensheng.
(d) Arranging another boyfriend for her.

14. Why does Manna find Geng Yang "interesting?"
(a) He has a strange body.
(b) He speaks with an accent.
(c) He is very kind.
(d) He is very masculine.

15. At the restaurant, what is Geng Yang's advice for Lin to encourage his wife to consent to a divorce?
(a) He bribes the judge.
(b) He threatens Shuyu.
(c) He refuses to sleep with her.
(d) He pays Shuyu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Manna be transferred to another hospital?

2. Who does Manna hit while riding her bike home one night?

3. When Liang Meng and Manna meet alone in the city, whose poetry does he quote?

4. When Lin returns to the hospital after failing to ask his wife for a divorce he tells Manna he is too what to spend time with her?

5. Why does Geng Yang ask Manna to come to his room?

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