Read an excerpt from the story in PDF or word-processing format to answer the question. Based on the sentence in lines 40–43 ("I sometimes . . . feel bad”), which of the following can be reasonably inferred about the character’s situation?

The husband’s beliefs prevent the narrator from improving her health.
Society does not place any value on women’s health.
The narrator’s condition is dire and irreversible.
Physical activity aggravates the narrator’s condition.
Stillness and quiet are the solution to the narrator’s woes.

the correct answer is (a); the angles, saxons, jutes, picts, and celts

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that's a lot of reading foo

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word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.