1. Candy said there are a lot of ways that people around us can help improve our life. Why didn’t this happen? (0:1).
    1.   We do not care about one another and, therefore, do not know what other people are doing in their life.
    2.   We seldom find time to pump petrol into other people’s car oil tanks and, therefore, do not have a chance to chat with them.
    3.   We often put up a buffer between us and other people and this blocks communication.
    4.   Many of us like to buff and make other people dislike us.
  2. What is the purpose of Candy’s public space wall?(0:45)
    1.   She wanted to provide a public space for her neighbours to share their thoughts and feelings.
    2.   She wanted to promote the sale of her abandoned house.
    3.   She wanted to provide a free public space for dating.
    4.   She wanted to promote tourism in her district.
  3. Where does Candy Chang live? (1:12)
    1.   New Orients
    2.   New Orleans
    3.   New Onions
    4.   New O-Lions
  4. Why did Candy feel that whenever someone sneezes, her home city was on parade? (1:28)
    1.   The city has a tradition of celebrating people sneezing.
    2.   Sneezes are used as a prompting signal for people to start parading.
    3.   People in her home city have ill health in general.
    4.   The city is musical and people hold parades very often.
  5. Why did the speaker cry in the middle of her talk? (2:10)
    1.   She remembered her failure in selling her abandoned house.
    2.   She was only trying to make her speech sensational.
    3.   She recalled the death of her mother in 2009.
    4.   She felt sad that she was unable to keep her public space wall for a
      long time.
  6. Why did the speaker say that thinking about death is one of the most meaningful and empowering things to do? (5:38)
    1.   She noticed that her mother’s death had made her realize her love for her mother.
    2.   It made her realize that life is very short and easy to lose and, therefore, the most important thing in life is to care about one another.
    3.   It was her mother’s death which gave her the idea to set up the public space wall.
    4.   Her mother’s death had made her regret the time she had spent with her mother.
  7. How did the wall become constructive space?
    1.   It provides a chance for people to reflect on things they have done and think of things to do ahead before their death.
    2.   It has collected many constructive ideas about how to live a good life.
    3.   It gave a good idea for the way to construct new houses meaningfully in the future.
    4.   It attracted many tourists to visit the place and buy properties in the neighbourhood, therefore, reviving the construction industry of the place.
  8. What does Candy treasure most in life? (5:20)
    1.   Time and money
    2.   Her public space wall
    3.   Time and her relationship with her mother and other people
    4.   Her love with all her neighbours
  9. Why is it even more important in our present age to find ways to maintain a perspective and remember that life is brief and tender? (5:22)
    1.   We are busy with too many things and we can easily lose focus on these important points.
    2.   Not everyone in the world has the chance to write on a public space wall in their neighbourhood.
    3.   We don’t see the meaning of our life until we have lost somebody important.
    4.   People in the past did not have a public space wall for reflection and contemplation.