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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, Pages 142-174.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yintze do when her visits with the parents came to an end?
(a) Kept finding excuses to stay.
(b) Stole from them.
(c) Happily left.
(d) Cried.

2. In 1899, who leased the house Lao lives in?
(a) Mrs. Burns.
(b) Lao's husband.
(c) Mantze.
(d) Lao.

3. What does Lao Say most Chinese families expect of their maids?
(a) Free labor.
(b) For them to live in their homes.
(c) For wet-nurses.
(d) To keep them for life.

4. How old was Lao when her father first saw her?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

5. What information concerning stories and legends does Lao state about a wild goose?
(a) A goose landing in a courtyard means an increase in fortune.
(b) The goose cannot be around a cat.
(c) A goose walking through a house fortells a robbery.
(d) The goose drowned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wen Chuan attend school as a child?

2. What kind of other servants lived with Lao at Major Liu's house?

3. What is the date of Lao's childhood?

4. How did Lao and Fats'ai's mother's relationship change after Fats'ai's death?

5. Where could Mantze not learn to be a good servant for her future mother-in-law?

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