Chapter 1
Name of the narrator
Who is Li Niannian?
The relation between the narrator's mother and the director of the Crematorium
What is sibling? What is younger sister?
The name of the shop owned by the narrator's parents.
What is New World funerary shop?
The mother is making this even during her dreamwalking.
What is making funerary objects such paper blossoms and wreaths?
TRUE or FALSE. Some people start stealing and looting stores and people's homes during mass dreamwalking.
What is TRUE?
The kind of shop the narrator's parents own
What is a funerary shop?
The narrator's uncle collects this from the crematorium furnace to sell.
What is corpse oil?
He says this, "The first time I went to inform on someone, I felt as though I was dreamwalking ... The first time I sent to the crematorium to fetch the barrel full of my mother's corpse oil, I felt as though I was dreamwalking."
Who is Li Tianbao or the narrator's father?
What is corpse oil?
What is the narrator's mother making to wake people up from their dreamwalking state?
What is making tea?
The name of the narrator's village
What is Gaotian village?
What is exploding and burning the tomb?
The father does this barrels of corpse oil he collects from the narrator's uncle
The narrator's father goes to the town-square and does this.
What is trying to wake people up from their dreamwalking?
She says this: "Tonight, God has been good to our Li family. The entire town is dreamwalking, and our family us the inly one still awake. The dreamwalkers are like confusd demons, and those who are not dreamwalking are like awake gods. Awake gods are best positioned to help confused demons, and if we help them, we'll be able to wipe clean our debts."
Who is the narrator's mother?
The name of the narrator's father
Who is Tianbao?
The past gravest "sin" of the narrator's father
What is being a spy and an informer: informing on the villagers and townspeople who secretly buried their dead?
The narrator said if only the girl who works at the Crematorium were ..., he would wake her up from her dreamwalking.
What is a bit prettier?
These people gather near the canal, discussing whether or not to jump into the river.
Who are elderly people?
While dreamwalking, the narrator's father does this until he wakes up when someone hits him on the head with a pole.
What is confessing that he was the informer?
The medical term for sleep-walking or dream-walking
What is somnambulism?
The term of address people use to address the Crematorium director
What is Director Shao?
The name of the girl who works at the Crematorium
Who is Little Juanzi, or Xu Xiaojuan, Xor u Juanzi?
Yang Guangzhu's father sees that his mother's corpse has been exploded and then he falls into the mother's grave. Yang Guangzhu then does this to his father.
What is burying the father in the grave that has just been blown open?
He says this: "Gu Hongbao, go to sleep. I'm telling you that the fact that your mother's body was taken away and cremated has nothing to do with me. Like you, for the past ten years or more, I had no idea who in town could be so amoral, and therefore, while asleep, I confusedly attributed this act to myself."
Who is the narrator's father or Li Tianbao?