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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. Why does the audience cry during "The Flower Girl"?
(a) The young girls in the movie are crying.
(b) It brings back bad memories.
(c) The move is violent.
(d) The main character dies.

2. Why does the group congregate outside the courthouse after Lin and Shuyu's divorce hearing?
(a) To ask for divorces themselves.
(b) To heckle Lin.
(c) To support Lin.
(d) To pay their taxes.

3. Why does manna ask to be left behind to die during the hospital camp-and-field training?
(a) Because she feels responsible for a patient's death.
(b) Because her heart is still broken by Mai Dong.
(c) Because she is ashamed of having feelings for Lin.
(d) Because she is so tired.

4. What do Manna and Liang Meng talk about when they first meet at the hospital?
(a) Lin.
(b) Politics.
(c) The weather.
(d) Grapes.

5. What happens to Lin's weight when he falls ill with tuberculosis?
(a) It fluctuates unpredictably.
(b) He gains 20 pounds.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He loses 20 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't anyone play cards as the people in Lin's dream do?

2. What is Manna considered dangerously close to because of her age?

3. Who does Lin believe is the key player in making his divorce successful?

4. How long have Lin and Shuyu been separated for at the beginning of "Waiting"?

5. What does Ren ask Lin to bring home from the hospital to help his son's stomach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lin's daydream about the nurses say about him?

2. Why won't Manna report her rape?

3. Why is Manna hesitant to become engaged to Mai Dong before her graduation? What is their deciding factor in holding off their engagement?

4. Although a relationship between Manna and Liang Meng is Lin's idea, what is his attitude? Why?

5. Why does Lin think an attempt to pay Shuyu or Bensheng for a divorce would fail?

6. After Lin begins to try in earnest to divorce Shuyu, what are the new dilemmas that arise?

7. How does Lin share Manna's feelings about Geng Yang?

8. Why is Lin's response to "Leaves of Grass" peculiar to his usual tendencies towards literature?

9. Why doesn't Geng Yang cry during "The Flower Girl?" What conclusion does Manna draw about him?

10. What is the crowd at the courthouse defending when they are scolding Lin?

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