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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lin most interested in from Manna's locked box?
(a) Her photos.
(b) Her jewelry.
(c) Her letters from Mai Dong.
(d) Her books.

2. What has Lin done to help Manna through her illness?
(a) Buying her presents.
(b) Spending more time with her.
(c) Housekeeping.
(d) Earning more money.

3. When Manna is informed how serious her heart condition is, who is she concerned for?
(a) Lin.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her sons.

4. How much alimony does the judge tell Lin to pay Shuyu?
(a) 90 yen a month.
(b) Nothing.
(c) 2,000 yen a year.
(d) 30 yen a month.

5. What is Manna sick with before their wedding?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) An unknown disease.
(c) The flu.
(d) A cold.

6. What do Manna's legs feel like as she walks away from spying on Lin's class?
(a) Water.
(b) Jell-O.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Sticks.

7. What holiday do Manna and Lin prepare for at the end of "Waiting?"
(a) Christmas.
(b) Mao's Birthday.
(c) Chinese New Year.
(d) Spring Festival.

8. What do Manna's symptoms of her bad heart resemble?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Cancer.

9. What is causing Lin the pain in his back and foot?
(a) His stomach.
(b) His kidney.
(c) His spine.
(d) His heart.

10. What is Bensheng most jealous of at the end of "Waiting?"
(a) Lin has three children.
(b) Shuyu's happiness.
(c) Hua is earning money.
(d) Manna's beauty.

11. How does Manna react to seeing Geng Yang on TV?
(a) She is happy for Geng Yang.
(b) She breaks the TV.
(c) She is unaffected.
(d) She is hysterical.

12. Why is Geng Yang on TV?
(a) Because he has become very rich.
(b) Because he is an actor on a show.
(c) Because he has been convicted of a crime.
(d) Because he invented a new detergent.

13. What do Manna's eyes look like the day after her rape?
(a) They are red and swollen.
(b) They are blue-lidded.
(c) They will not open.
(d) They are bloodshot.

14. Why does Manna have to leave the wedding?
(a) She feels sick.
(b) She spills something on her dress.
(c) She starts to cry.
(d) A nurse acts mean to her.

15. Why does Manna feel sad in the weeks following her wedding?
(a) She wishes they had married years earlier.
(b) She doesn't see her friends as much.
(c) She regrets not marrying another man.
(d) She wishes her parents could have been there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Haiyan think Lin's reaction to Manna's rape will be?

2. Why does Manna tell Ran Su she wants Lin to stay home more?

3. What are Manna and Lin's twins diagnosed with?

4. Manna's heart murmur often turns to a _______ rhythm.

5. Only a woman over the age of _______ would be expected to have bound feet.

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