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Yiyun Li, The Science of Flight

Yiyun Li, The Science of Flight

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

1. Where does Zichen work?

an accounting firm

a hair salon

an animal-care facility

a staffing agency

2. Zichen was raised by her grandmother because

Zichen was born out of wedlock so her grandmother banished her mother.

Zichen’s parents died in a car accident.

her mother abandoned Zichen in the hospital when she was born.

Zichen’s parents wanted her to be close to her entire family.

3. What did Zichen’s husband hold against her when they got divorced?

the baby she had miscarried

her desire to move back to China

her wasteful money habits

her interest in dead languages

4. The only time that Zichen felt real “discomfort” around Henry and Ted was when

Ted asked her about her travel plans.

Ted hit on her at the office holiday party.

Henry first trained her to breed mice.

Henry ordered a picnic table for Zichen to eat at.

5. Why does Zichen not want to go to China on vacation this year?

She is desperate to visit someplace new so she will have new pictures to frame.

She cannot face her grandmother’s disappointment one more time.

Her grandmother has died, so Zichen no longer has a reason to visit there.

She wants to prove to Ted and Henry that she can be surprising.