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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did May Ying often pay her gambling debts?

2. What were concubines traditionally expected to do in the household?

3. What disease was Sam trying to prepare for?

4. How did Sam feel about May Ying's first child?

5. What did Sam work on when he got to China after leaving Hing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sam try to save face with May Ying's affair?

2. What did Granny Yi do for May Ying?

3. What were Guen's stipulations for giving money to May Ying?

4. Why did Hing stop seeing her father when he moved back to China?

5. What service did Hing hate doing for her mother in town?

6. What did Guen do for a living?

7. What did Sam do to try and keep in contact with Hing?

8. How did Hing feel about Guen, and why?

9. Where did Sam find May Ying when she failed to come home one night?

10. What made May Ying feel jealous when Huangbo had a son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the relationship between Hing and her father change throughout the course of the story, and how did these changes affect the people around them?

Essay Topic 2

How did Huangbo show her integrity, and what resulted because of her dependence on integrity?

Essay Topic 3

Sacrifice was a theme that was very prevalent in this book. Who were the people most affected by this theme, and how did they allow sacrifice to change their lives?

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