<p> Name ______</p><p>Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze</p><p>Introduction</p><p>- Who was the empress that died in 1909 that led China into a period of revolution and violence?</p><p>- What were the men who contended for the throne called?</p><p>- Who is the author of the book?</p><p>Chapter 1 – “A City Set Upon a Hill”</p><p>- What is the city that is set upon a hill?</p><p>- Who owned the two-storied tenement where Young Fu and Fu Be Be were moving into?</p><p>- On what street was the tenement, and what is implied by the street’s name?</p><p>- Who were the people that did menial and back-breaking labor?</p><p>- For Young Fu, “the hours had flowed into the past as swiftly as the current of the river.” What does this quote mean, and what literary device is used?</p><p>- What caused Fu Be Be excitement as they were moving in to their tenement?</p><p>- Explain the geographic location of Chungking (p. 4)?</p><p>- What is Young Fu’s real name, and how old is he when he moves to Chungking?</p><p>- In Chungking, what was a “feeble barrier between themselves and hunger” (p. 6)?</p><p>- What does the quote, “Do I look like the widow of a Mandarin?” mean and who says it?</p><p>- How had the troops changed Young Fu’s father? - Young Fu’s father used to say “Ma te fah.” What does that mean?</p><p>- What property was Fu Be Be’s special pride (p. 9)?</p><p>- What are the two common methods of entertainment mentioned at the beginning of the book?</p><p>- What proof is there that the man who lived above Young Fu is a scholar (p. 11)?</p><p>- What does Wang Scholar say is Young Fu’s real reason for fortune?</p><p>- How does Young Fu respond to the idea of foreigners, and what do some Chinese call foreigners?</p><p>- Does Fu Be Be share Young Fu’s or the other Chinese peoples opinion of foreigners? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 2 – “In the Beginning All Things are Difficult”</p><p>- Why were Young Fu and Fu Be Be in their best garments when they went to the coppersmiths for the first time?</p><p>- Who eyed Young Fu and Fu Be Be with a “glance of derision”? (Derision means ridicule or mockery)</p><p>- Who is the farmer that writes the letter for Young Fu?</p><p>- In the past five years was required for apprenticeship, but because of war, how many are required now?</p><p>- At what time must Young Fu present himself to the shop everyday?</p><p>- Which Fu character does Fu Be Be sign the contract with?</p><p>- Why did Young Fu decide that he would learn to read and write?</p><p>- What was the cost to live in Dai’s tenement?</p><p>- What was Young Fu’s first task?</p><p>- Describe Tsu and Lu and their importance to the shop.</p><p>- How was Young Fu first tormented during midday rice? - Who or what brought Young Fu relief from this torment?</p><p>- What was Young Fu asked to deliver, and who was to help him?</p><p>- Where is Young Fu from?</p><p>- What do Young Fu and Li have in common?</p><p>- Why is Den bitter about Young Fu working at the shop? - What does countenance mean?</p><p>- “Chisels screeching their way into designs,” is what literary element?</p><p>- What does Dsen think about foreigners and their money?</p><p>- Why is the foreigner asking the price of something so amazing to Young Fu?</p><p>- What does Fu Be Be mean when she says, “You are like a man who sits at the bottom of a well and boasts about his knowledge”? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 3 – “Service at the Point of a Rifle”</p><p>- Why did Young Fu like delivering orders so much?</p><p>- What does disdain mean?</p><p>- What is a quality of Chinese women when buying merchandise no matter what their wealth?</p><p>- Why did women get their feet bound? Who started it? </p><p>- Why was not having your feet bound a stigma? What is a stigma?</p><p>- After six months he realized that Chungking was not perfect. Why?</p><p>- Why didn’t the coolie carry the soldiers’ bedding?</p><p>- What was Young Fu called on to carry?</p><p>- What does marshalling mean?</p><p>- Young Fu is fourteen at this time. True or False.</p><p>- What is indignation, and why does Young Fu feel it when the soldier says that he purchased the grain?</p><p>- Where did Fu Be Be go after Young Fu told her the story of the soldiers? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 4 – “If a Man’s Affairs Are to Prosper”</p><p>- Wang Scholar says, “Good iron is not wasted in making nails, nor good men in making soldiers!” Explain this quote.</p><p>- What does Tang say is all alike about Tuchuns?</p><p>- Where did Young Fu initially go to learn to draw strokes of Chinese characters?</p><p>- What causes Wang Scholar to start showing Young Fu how to write and instruct him?</p><p>- What does Wang Scholar refer to as the “wealth of ages”?</p><p>- What is the first thing that Wang Scholar teaches Young Fu?</p><p>- What does Young Fu think knowledge is for, and what does Wang tell him knowledge is really for?</p><p>- What does supercilious mean?</p><p>- Why doesn’t Young Fu share secrets with Small Li?</p><p>- What is true of most beggars?</p><p>- On his trip outside the city, what caused Young Fu to think of his father?</p><p>- What are imprecations?</p><p>- Why is Young Fu threatened by the beggar with a knife?</p><p>- During the period of Great Heat, what does Fu Be Be do for Wang Scholar because they have no money to pay him for lessons?</p><p>- What quote is Young Fu thinking about when he is tripped by beggars? - What does the quote mean?</p><p>- What was damaged in the fall?</p><p>- What moral dilemma does he face here and what wise decision does he make?</p><p>- What lesson does he learn from Tang regarding the damaged brazier?</p><p>- What is Young Fu’s punishment?</p><p>- What does penitent mean? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 5 – For Sale – Dragon’s Breath, Cheap”</p><p>- How long did Young Fu have to work in the shop and not make deliveries?</p><p>- In this chapter how long has Young Fu been an apprentice?</p><p>- What causes Young Fu’s “small world of self-confidence that he had been building crumbled into ruins at his feet”? What literary device is this an example of?</p><p>- What “evil fortune” grips Young Fu?</p><p>- What does Hsui the shopkeeper use to make Young Fu want the watch more?</p><p>- What must Young Fu pay for the watch, and does he have to pay at this time?</p><p>- What was the ruling desire of Fu Be Be, and how did this debt put this desire in question?</p><p>- Young Fu calls himself a dolt when he realizes the mistake of buying the watch. What is a dolt?</p><p>- Regarding the watch, “One morning in the second month of his possession, its mainspring gasped in a final effort and all of its contents settled into peaceful relaxation.” What literary device is this?</p><p>- By when did the balance on the watch have to be paid?</p><p>- Where did Young Fu go to flee the debt?</p><p>- What is a pu-gai?</p><p>- What does Young Fu fill with snow?</p><p>- What is snow also called?</p><p>- Why did the grandmother think it not wise to sell the snow?</p><p>- How much did Young Fu sell the snow for?</p><p>- What does “Fortune augered well for the coming year!” mean? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 6 – “Tilting with Fire”</p><p>- How did Young Fu get his money’s value with Hsui?</p><p>- What does Wang Scholar believe that most of men’s troubles come from?</p><p>- What is Chungking compared to on p. 97, and what does that comparison mean?</p><p>- What does auspicious mean?</p><p>- What sense of Young Fu first experienced the fire?</p><p>- Why does Fu Be Be fear Young Fu going to watch the fire?</p><p>- What does Fu Be Be do to ward off the trouble that Young Fu is heading towards?</p><p>- What was on fire and what was not?</p><p>- What did Young u find odd about the person in authority?</p><p>- What was threatening to burn down the house?</p><p>- What did the foreigner call him that caused him to warm?</p><p>- Is Fu Be Be proud of Young Fu for saving the house? Why or why not?</p><p>- Is Tang as superstitious as Fu Be Be or the other in the shop? What does Tang say?</p><p>- Who started the fire and why?</p><p>- What was Young Fu’s reward from the foreign woman? - How much of the reward did he want to keep, and what was this portion for?</p><p>- Why does Tang give him the small kettle for such a low price? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 7 – “The Devils of Disease”</p><p>- Why is everyone irritable at the beginning of the chapter?</p><p>- What was there talk of in the city? </p><p>- What disease did Young Fu think animals had nothing to do with?</p><p>- Which journeyman dies and why?</p><p>- What disease followed cholera in Chungking?</p><p>- What caused Fu Be Be to be happier than any other time since moving to Chungking?</p><p>- What does propitious mean?</p><p>- When Young Fu went to the drug shop to get herbs for Wang’s illness, what was most fascinating?</p><p>- Why did Tang say that Young Fu is a favorite of Heaven?</p><p>- To whom does Old Tsu say, “The fool always expends effort to make his superior seem less than himself,” and why does he say it?</p><p>- After Li falls ill, what does Young Fu first notice about Li Be Be?</p><p>- What does Li Be Be think is the reason for Li’s illness?</p><p>- What does Lu say about his friend and priests?</p><p>- When does Tang notice similarities between Young Fu and his son, and how did his son die?</p><p>- What does the foreign woman think mad Li sick?</p><p>- What does Young Fu ask of Tang in order to help Li? - Where does Li live?</p><p>- Which of Li’s parents is more welcoming of the foreign woman and why?</p><p>- Who offers to help pay for Li’s treatment?</p><p>- What was Li actually sick with?</p><p>- What was coming to end the period of Great Heat? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 8 – “A Footstool for Bandits!”</p><p>- Who took Den’s place, and what effect did he have on the shop?</p><p>- What does gleaned mean?</p><p>- Who, when alive, was New China’s Hope?</p><p>- What did the Nationalists choose for their capital?</p><p>- Who did the Nationalists wish to copy?</p><p>- Who was the large order of brass for?</p><p>- Why does Tang say that he is taking Young Fu on the delivery?</p><p>- What is the major source of danger on the river?</p><p>- Why are soldiers no good against the ban-keh?</p><p>- Why couldn’t Fu Be Be stop him form going?</p><p>- Where are they going to deliver the brass to?</p><p>- Where were Tang’s Family farmers?</p><p>- What does it mean when Young Fu says that Tang had “eaten much bitterness”?</p><p>- What meant more to Young Fu than payment in money for the brass delivery?</p><p>- How were the brasses paid for?</p><p>- Who was not there in the morning, and what is the believed reason they are gone? - Why did the captain anchor the boat?</p><p>- Where was the silver being stored?</p><p>- How many bandits were there?</p><p>- What did Tang give the bandits in money, but also to trick them and how much was it for?</p><p>- How did Young Fu hide the silver?</p><p>- What does Tang tell Young Fu about the check?</p><p>- Who was walking on Young Fu the whole time, and what injury did Young Fu receive? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 9 – “A River on the Rampage”</p><p>- What made Young Fu happy that he did not relate the incident which made him look so good?</p><p>- What is Den’s talent, and what else is he good at?</p><p>- Where does Den go when his apprenticeship is over?</p><p>- What does Old Tsu mean by, “A bird of evil omen has flown the rooftree.”?</p><p>- Who took Den’s place? What was he like?</p><p>- What does Young Fu say to comfort the new apprentice?</p><p>- After making a delivery and saving some eggplants, what dilemma does Young Fu face?</p><p>- Describe the River Dragon.</p><p>- Who does Young Fu ask for a place to stay for the evening?</p><p>- What dos Young Fu say that shows that he is not a thief?</p><p>- What are the signs of spring in the hills?</p><p>- What drove the Lings from Smiling Heaven Hill?</p><p>- What does, “Character is made by rising above one’s misfortunes” mean, and who says it?</p><p>- Who else was from Smiling Heaven Hill?</p><p>- What causes the Lings to stand there dazed, and who snaps them out of their daze?</p><p>- What do the Lings decide to take with them to protect them from the cold? - What does seethed mean?</p><p>- Where do the Lings and Young Fu end up, and who is there to help them?</p><p>- Why was Mother Ling afraid to stay in the house?</p><p>- How does Tang know the Lings?</p><p>- Who is Hsien-Seng?</p><p>- What does beguiling mean?</p><p>- What does gaminish mean? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 10 – “A Small Problem of Ownership”</p><p>- Ten days after the flood, what happened to Li?</p><p>- What had left an unprotected section of the wall?</p><p>- What was the spectacle that showed signs of modern times?</p><p>- What was the other mechanized invention “devil-engine” brought to Chungking?</p><p>- What is Young Fu’s opinion of the foreigners?</p><p>- What was the man in the Abiding Delight Tea House speaking about?</p><p>- What type of government is he promoting?</p><p>- What does “The shallowest teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!” mean?</p><p>- Who in the shop agrees with the man in the tea house?</p><p>- Whose home is being attacked by the Communists?</p><p>- Does Tang believe that the foreigners “have brought all the evils from which this land suffers”?</p><p>- When Tang tells Wei to “Begin your work,” how does Weis respond, and how does Tang respond to this?</p><p>- What does Wang Scholar mean when he says, “We are like a fowl from whose bones even the marrow has been sucked.”?</p><p>- Whose youngest son was to be married?</p><p>- What does Tang ask Young Fu to do instead of attending the wedding? - Why would Young Fu rather be at the shop than at the wedding?</p><p>- What was Young Fu doing when he heard a strange sound and voices?</p><p>- Where were the people with Wei, who broke into the shop, from?</p><p>- What was the plan of these men?</p><p>- What did Wei destroy that belonged to Tang?</p><p>- How did Young Fu take care of Wei?</p><p>- What weapons did the other men have?</p><p>- Who returned to the shop to help Young Fu?</p><p>- Tang says to the thief, “Only the man who can eat the bitterness of bitterness can become the hero of heroes.” What does he mean?</p><p>- Why did they return from Tsu’s early? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 11 – “He Who Rides on a Tiger Cannot Dismount”</p><p>- Whose attention to his surroundings had saved Young Fu’s life?</p><p>- What does doleful mean?</p><p>- How many years of freedom does Li want instead of marrying?</p><p>- How did the death of Young Fu’s father actually give him more freedom?</p><p>- What does acrid mean?</p><p>- Why does Fu Be Be decide to visit her nephew in the hills?</p><p>- How much money does Fu Be Be give Young Fu before she leaves?</p><p>- What does Fu Be Be tell young Fu to use some of the money for?</p><p>- Fu Be Be’s absence caused what for the first time in Young Fu’s life?</p><p>- What is the difference between motor buses now and earlier in the book?</p><p>- What do you think happened to all the beggars?</p><p>- What was Young Fu craving that he had only had two or three occasions of in his life?</p><p>- What were four men playing? Please notice the words of darkness that denote evil is around.</p><p>- What do the men do that show that they are planning something?</p><p>- What does consternation mean?</p><p>- Do the domino players use flattery like the Hsui does to get Young Fu to play? - What was Young Fu’s debt, and how did he accumulate the debt?</p><p>- How did they know that Young Fu had money?</p><p>- “His heart burn like a hot coal in his breast.” What is the literary device, and what does it mean?</p><p>- How long did Fu Be Be remain away?</p><p>- Who was giving Young Fu the most trouble about paying a debt?</p><p>- What let Tang know that something was wrong with Young Fu?</p><p>- Why did Young Fu tell Tang the whole story of what had happened to the money?</p><p>- Who pays for Young Fu’s present debts?</p><p>- How old is Young Fu now, and why doesn’t he immediately tell her about the loss of money?</p><p>- How does Young Fu relate the story of the dominoes to his mother? </p><p>- How does it show his maturity?</p><p>- What question does Fu Be Be ask Young Fu?</p><p>- Why was Fu Be Be crying?</p><p>- What feeling did Young Fu have after telling his mother, and how well she receives the news?</p><p>- What does Tang mean by, “Medicines are bitter in the mouth, but they cure sickness”? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 12 – “In the Course of Time, Men’s Motives May Be Seen”</p><p>- How many years did it take Young Fu to finish hi apprenticeship?</p><p>- What did Fu Be Be pay money for to treat the member of the shop?</p><p>- How did the men of the shop torment Young Fu on this important date?</p><p>- How much are Young Fu’s wages going to be?</p><p>- What is the first task that Young Fu asks to do as a journeyman?</p><p>- What does Old Tsu say to Young Fu to tease him about the jar in which he had been working?</p><p>- What does badinage mean?</p><p>- Who and what is Wang Scholar referring when he says, “No man is entirely devoid of goodness, and the princely man is tolerant of other men’s weaknesses.”?</p><p>- Ho w many items are missing from the brass shop?</p><p>- Who was the most important figure in Young Fu’s life?</p><p>- What was torn down that leads to more ban-keh being around?</p><p>- What gave Young Fu such a hard time? How did he feel that he was being viewed?</p><p>- What does insinuations mean?</p><p>- Where did Young Fu see one of the missing brass pieces?</p><p>- Why does Tang want Young Fu to be quiet when he reenters the shop? - When Den is confronted about the “borrowing” who does he blame and why?</p><p>- Does Tang give Den a punishment for his actions?</p><p>- What choice does Tang give to the accountant?</p><p>- What did the accountant do the next day and why?</p><p>- What effect do Tang’s words, “I trusted you as I would my son, if he were here,” have on Young Fu? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 13 – “A Use for Curiosity”</p><p>- When was the last time Li had seen the girl that he was to marry?</p><p>- What is the reason that Young Fu wants to go to the tailor instead of having Fu Be Be make his clothes?</p><p>- Why does Fu Be Be think that Young Fu has had such good fortune?</p><p>- Where does Young Fu buy the damask, and what is wrong with it?</p><p>- What wouldn’t Young Fu let the tailor do when he was not there?</p><p>- How much did Young Fu’s wage increase after a year of being a journeyman?</p><p>- What does Young Fu want to do with the extra money? </p><p>- Who had Wang Scholar become friends with?</p><p>- What does sagacity mean?</p><p>- What task did Young Fu do most in the brass shop because of his talent?</p><p>- What does impudently mean?</p><p>- What does the quote, “The monkey looks in the mirror and wonders at the charm of his own reflection,” mean?</p><p>- What is the ya-men?</p><p>- What is the reason for Tang going to see the ya-men?</p><p>- How long does Lu have before he is imprisoned? - Who does Tang send to do the spying around Lu’s house?</p><p>- Why did the Tuchun plant poppies?</p><p>- Where had opium first come to china from?</p><p>- What was the punishment for dealing in opium?</p><p>- What was Young Fu’s excuse for going to see Lu? </p><p>- What does doleful mean?</p><p>- What did Young Fu see while looking at the shed?</p><p>- What was the smugglers’ signal?</p><p>- What was deceptive about the steward?</p><p>- How was Young Fu able to identify one of the smugglers.</p><p>- What does callow mean?</p><p>- Even though Lu was imprisoned a day and a night, how much older did he look?</p><p>- What was Young Fu’s motive for helping out Lu? Name ______</p><p>Chapter 14 – “One Must First Scale the Mountain in Order to View the Plain”</p><p>- Why did Young Fu have more duties around the shop?</p><p>- What did Young Fu think of welding and cutting?</p><p>- What does loathe mean?</p><p>- Why is Tang disappointed by Young Fu?</p><p>- How does Young Fu react to Tang’s disappointment?</p><p>- What does shirked mean?</p><p>- What opportunity does Tang give to Young Fu after he shows promise on two pieces?</p><p>- What happens to Fu Be Be’s sister-in-law?</p><p>- What does Tang ask Young Fu to do when Fu Be Be is away?</p><p>- What do the two do each night?</p><p>- How old is Young Fu at this time?</p><p>- What is Young Fu’s dream?</p><p>- What does uncongenial mean?</p><p>- What does Tang say about Young Fu and adopting him?</p><p>- Why does Tang choose to do this?</p><p>- How much time does the book span? - What are the two rivers in the book?</p><p>- What does clarion mean?</p><p>- How does Young Fu describe life at the end of the novel?</p>