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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. How does Geng Yang look on television?
(a) Healthy.
(b) Old.
(c) Mean.
(d) Sick.

2. What does Lin tell Shuyu to do when he is drunk in her apartment?
(a) To leave him alone,
(b) To wait for him.
(c) To put a log on the fire.
(d) To go back to Goose Village.

3. What is Manna's reaction to knowing she will die soon?
(a) Unaffected.
(b) Hysterical.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Happy.

4. Why is Hua sad to be leaving Goose Village?
(a) The weather is nicer.
(b) He boyfriend lives there.
(c) She has friends there.
(d) She has to quit her job.

5. What does Manna decide to do if she is pregnant?
(a) Get an abortion.
(b) Have the baby and pretend Lin is the father.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Run away to another city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Lin done to help Manna through her illness?

2. Why do the orderlies ask Lin to teach the class?

3. When Lin notices how sick Manna looks, what does he compare her to?

4. Why does Manna feel sad in the weeks following her wedding?

5. What also happens as the twins' dysentery is cured?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Ran Su's blessing makes Manna so upset?

2. What does Lin think is the effect of Manna's suffering?

3. How does tradition aid Lin in Chapter 9?

4. How do Manna's worst fears appear to be coming true in Chapter 11?

5. Why does Lin think he and Manna shouldn't make love so much?

6. In Chapter 9, how does Lin prove not to be as cold to his family as he originally felt?

7. Do people in the hospital view Shuyu as a joke?

8. Why doesn't Lin stay in the delivery room while Manna is giving birth?

9. What about seeing Geng Yang upsets Manna so much?

10. After the secret of Manna's rape gets out, how does the way the hospital staff treats Manna and Lin change?

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