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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O-lan say she will do if Cuckoo or Lotus are allowed into her room after she has died in Chapter 26?
(a) She will send back her spirit for a curse.
(b) She will have her sister kill everyone.
(c) She will arrange for a divorce.
(d) She will curse her daughters to slavery.

2. What does Wang Lung tell O-lan he would do if only it would heal her in Chapter 26?
(a) He would sell all his land.
(b) He would leave Lotus.
(c) He would move into town.
(d) He would sell his daughters.

3. What color robes do the priests from the Buddhist temple wear that are summoned for O-lan's funeral?
(a) Gray.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. What is described as the color of mourning that Wang Lung and his family wears after O-lan's death?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. How old is Wang Lung's eldest son when Wang sends him to be educated?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Wang Lung buy a coffin for also when he purchases one for O-lan in Chapter 26?

2. What is the woman holding in the picture on the wall of the tea shop that Wang Lung becomes enamored with?

3. Of the silk depictions of women on the walls of the tea house, Wang Lung says in Chapter 18, "I thought they were pictures of dream women, of goddesses in the mountain of" where?

4. What does Wang Lung's uncle ask of Wang Lung for his daughter's dowry in Chapter 7?

5. What suggestion of his eldest son's regarding his uncle does Wang Lung finally agree to in Chapter 27?

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