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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The grandmother asks the baby to teach her mother how to lose innocence, without losing hope, and _________________________-.
(a) How to be Queen of the Western Skis
(b) How to forgive everyone
(c) How to laugh forever
(d) How to be a good mother

2. The characters in this parable are ______________________________.
(a) Rose and her mother
(b) June Woo and her mother
(c) Not yet known to the reader
(d) Waverly and her mother

3. The sisters in China were told their mother was dead by __________________.
(a) A telegram from Jing-Mei's father
(b) Jing-Mei
(c) A letter from Auntie Lindo
(d) A phone call from Auntie An-Mei

4. An-Mei's mother was not always a fourth wife, but was once a _______________________.
(a) First wife of a poor servant
(b) Second wife of a villager
(c) Model in Tientsin
(d) First wife of a scholar

5. Lindo knows that Chinese people will know that her daughter ___________________.
(a) Is not Chinese
(b) Is well-to-do
(c) Is highly educated
(d) Is a good wife

6. Jing-Mei's paternal aunt and her father speak ____________________.
(a) Sechuan
(b) The Mandarin dialect
(c) English
(d) The Cantonese dialect

7. Lindo's mother told her as a child that _________________________________.
(a) She would grow up to be unfortunate
(b) She would follow her nose to good luck
(c) She would later learn to worry and lose her hair
(d) She would marry well

8. The mother has purchased a new mirror at _______________________.
(a) Twice Used Store
(b) Macy's
(c) Dollar Store
(d) The Price Club

9. During an epidemic in Shanghai, Ying-Ying worked in ____________________.
(a) A local hospital
(b) Her relatives' home
(c) The farmers' market
(d) A clothing store

10. What the daughter sees in the mirror is _____________________.
(a) Her mother's face and her own
(b) Her own face
(c) Her future granchild's face
(d) Her mother's face

11. Old Mr. Chou is ___________________________________.
(a) A Chinese fortune teller
(b) A neighbor who tends Rose's garden
(c) An old friend of An-Mei's
(d) A fantasy figure from the world of sleep

12. Waverly had to become ill before her mother would _____________________________-.
(a) Feed her again
(b) Encourage her to play
(c) Forbid her to play
(d) Speak to her again

13. Lindo disapproves of Waverly's mink because ___________________________.
(a) She thinks it is too extravagant
(b) She feels it is too cheap
(c) The individual hairs are uneven
(d) She does not believe in animal furs

14. This daughter is tired of her mother's habit of ______________________________.
(a) Warning her about her marriage
(b) Seeing bad omens in everything
(c) Trying to fix everything
(d) Projecting her negativity outward

15. Rich's reaction to his unintended insults toward Lindo was _________________________________________.
(a) He was loyal to Waverly
(b) He admitted his bleak failure
(c) He never realized he had done anything wrong
(d) He thinks they do not like him

Short Answer Questions

1. At lunch together, Waverly's mother _____________________________________.

2. An-Mei's brother cannot come with their mother because _______________________________.

3. During the war, it was not well-known that the Japanese entered ________________________.

4. Canning Woo's nickname, Syau Yen, means __________________.

5. In Peking, Lindo paid a Chinese girl to ____________________________.

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