What does Four-Eyes do when he gets the Miller's songs?

change them to revolutionary words

What is the narrator's nightmare about?

crossing the ridge; seamstress dies

How do Luo and the narrator get a few days off from work?

hosting the seamstress's father, traveling to watch films to tell later

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Balzac and Little Chinese Seamstress

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1
Why is Luo's father an enemy of the state?
He was a famous doctor.
He fixed Mao's teeth.
He was a famous doctor.
He had an affair with a nurse.
2
How did Four-Eyes lose his glasses?
Drinking with the miller
He fell while plowing
While crawling in the mine
Water buffalo tail hit them
3
What religion does one of the characters follow in the novel?
Islam
Taoism
Confucianism
Christianity
4
What does Four-Eyes do when he gets the Miller's songs?
Give the protagonists a book
call his mother with the good news
change them to have a better tune
change them to revolutionary words
5
What did Four-Eyes drink as the beginning of his farewell party?
liquor and pebbles
rice paddy water
buffalo blood
stew blessed by sorceresses
6
Who is injured on his or her finger?
Narrator
Seamstress
Luo
Headman
7
Who is injured on his or her ear?
Headman
Narrator
Luo
Seamstress
8
How long did re-education last
Exactly 3-6 years
Usually 1-3 years
More than 15 years
9
What did the narrator and Luo try to get from the miller?
grain
replacement workers
folk songs
folk tales
10
What do the narrator and Luo do with the suitcase of books at the end of the novel?
bury them
give them to the tailor
give them to the seamstress
burn them
11
How did Luo and the narrator get to sleep later some mornings?
telling the story of a film
changing the time on the clock
playing the violin
asking for time off work
12
What did the seamstress fetch for Luo?
her father
buffalo tail
key ring
book
13
Where did Luo and the narrator fear they were going to die?
moving baskets from the mine
working the fields
carrying excrement
trying to steal the books
14
In what year were both the narrator and Dai Sijie sent for re-eduation?
1965
1967
1971
1969
15
Who started the People's Republic?
Deng Xiouping
Jiang Jieshi
Lin Biao
Mao Zedong
16
What story does the narrator tell the seamstress's father?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jean-Cristophe
The Count of Monte Cristo
Pere Goriot
17
Luo and the narrator were sent to the mountain for what?
literary training
punishment for petty crimes
re-education by peasants
film school
18
What is the narrator's nightmare about?
pulling coal from mine; Luo dies
swimming in the pool; narrator dies
All three are caught and tortured
crossing the ridge; seamstress dies
19
How do Luo and the narrator get a few days off from work?
working extra hours in the mine
hosting the seamstress's father
providing musical entertainment
traveling to watch films to tell later
20
What is the price of an abortion?
a Western book
telling a film story
the sheepskin coat
helping in the hospital

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