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Yiyun Li, The Princess of Nebraska

Yiyun Li, The Princess of Nebraska

Read The Princess of Nebraska and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What is the relationship between Boshen and Sasha?

brother and sister

father and daughter

lovers

acquaintances

2. What is the purpose of Sasha’s trip to Chicago?

to visit Yang

to have an abortion

to see a Christmas parade

to seek new employment

3. Which of the following images was not used to describe Yang?

“a petal flitting to and fro on the winds”

“a white lotus blossom untouched by the surrounding mud”

“an angel falling out of the heavens”

“an exquisite china doll”

4. What initiates Sasha’s change in attitude towards her pregnancy?

Boshen making plaguing arguments that he should raise the baby.

Sasha’s sweet memories of Yang cause her to fall in love with him again, and consequently their child.

Sasha feels the baby move within her.

Sasha’s love for her mother convinces her to reconsider a mother’s love for a daughter.

5. The characters often make a claim about the difficulty of their lives or the lives of their loved ones. What is this claim?

Life is suffocated by stillness.

Poverty degrades pride.

They were born in a wrong time.

Chinese life is inherently unhappy.