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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Canning Woo's nickname, Syau Yen, means __________________.
(a) Little Wild Goose
(b) Small fox
(c) Little ghost
(d) Happy boy

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

3. The grandmother wonders aloud whether ____________________________________________.
(a) The baby is laughing at her or with her
(b) She is truly innocent or holds many secrets inside
(c) She sees negative things in others because she has them herself
(d) The baby has come from a royal place with Buddha

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lena and Harold are both _________________.

2. What does the jade pendant symbolize?

3. Ted makes the assumption that ______________________-.

4. Jing-mei's job is that of a _____________________.

5. Why did Lena feel she caused Arnold's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lindo knows Waverly's weak spots, and pokes at them. Discuss what they are.

2. Ying-Ying's story is vast and complex, and one that her daughter has never known or understood. Why, in this chapter, has she decided to tell Lena everything about her life?

3. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."

4. What is the lesson the woman is trying to impart, and the question she is wanting to have answered?

5. Why did An-Mei feel she had no choice but to marry Wu Tsing?

6. Is there a character in this story who might be represented in this parable?

7. Does Ying-Ying love her husband, Saint?

8. Does Rose grow in this chapter?

9. The fact that June Woo's mother has searched for a lifetime for her two daughters, and then dies before she can see them again, is strongly ironic. How might the story have been different if she had lived to make the trip to China and reunited with her daughters?

10. Why is An-Mei's family so miserable?

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