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

2. What is the supposed effect of a mirror at the foot of the bed?
(a) Marriage happiness will bounce back
(b) Things in the marriage will turn backward
(c) The mirror will reflect the wrong way
(d) It is bad luck to be able to see your partner while in bed

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

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

5. Waverly has an ignorant fear of Jing-mei's hairdresser _______________________________.
(a) Because he works on Howard Street
(b) Because she fears for her daughter
(c) Because he is reckless
(d) Because he is gay

Short Answer Questions

1. The characters in this parable are ______________________________.

2. Lindo disapproves of Waverly's mink because ___________________________.

3. Ying-Ying feels that aborting her baby was ______________________.

4. An-Mei's mother makes life in Tientsin sound __________________________________.

5. Ying-Ying feels that her daughter's home _________________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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. It becomes more obvious in this chapter the kinds of adults that Jing-Mei and Waverly have grown into. Who is more likable?

4. Why does Lena have such a strange financial relationship with Harold?

5. Does Rose grow in this chapter?

6. How does it affect Jing-Mei to meet her long lost sisters in China?

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

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

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. What does Jing-Mei's mother mean when she says that everyone else, with the exception of Jing-Mei, wants the best quality? How is Jing-Mei different?

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