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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of San-pa's home village?
(a) Shelter of Shade.
(b) Shadow of the Mountain.
(c) Dark Shadows.
(d) Shelter Shadow.

2. What does San-pa promise Li-yan?
(a) He will marry her without permission.
(b) He won't steal love with any other girl.
(c) He won't go to Thailand.
(d) He will come back for her.

3. What is the precious dowry Li-yan will bring to her marriage?
(a) The herbs and medicines her mother uses.
(b) A house her father will build.
(c) Pigs and chickens.
(d) A tea grove passed down through the women in her mother's family.

4. What tragic event happened in A-ma's tea garden?
(a) All the tea trees died.
(b) A-ba's father fell and died.
(c) The spirits haunted A-ma.
(d) First Sister-in-law was cursed.

5. What was the condition of the infants when they were adopted from the Welfare Institute?
(a) The children were filthy.
(b) The children were well cared for and healthy.
(c) All the children were dressed in traditional Akha clothing.
(d) The children were spotlessly clean.

6. When Li-yan finds San-pa sleeping in the street at Menghai, what does she realize he has taken?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Opium.

7. What does Li-yan eat that keeps her feeling full?
(a) Chili flakes.
(b) Tea leaves.
(c) Rice.
(d) Chicken.

8. Why does Li-yan dislike Mr. Huang?
(a) He is rude to her.
(b) He is disrespectful to A-ba.
(c) He does not treat his son well.
(d) He keeps asking about her special tea trees.

9. Where is Li-yan seated when she goes to second-level school?
(a) In a back corner.
(b) On the girl's side of the room.
(c) In the front row.
(d) In the middle of the room.

10. How does San-pa die?
(a) The drug runners kill him.
(b) He starves to death.
(c) He is attacked by a tiger.
(d) He overdoses on heroin.

11. What happened to baby Yan-yeh aboard the airplane taking her to America?
(a) She stopped breathing and turned blue.
(b) She cried all the way to America.
(c) She passed out from lack of food.
(d) She rolled over for the first time.

12. Why are twins the worst taboo in Akha culture?
(a) Families are only allowed one child at a time.
(b) Twins are a bad omen.
(c) Only animals give birth to litters.
(d) Twins are too expensive to raise.

13. What taboo does San-pa commit when leaving the village?
(a) He backs into the spirit gate.
(b) He argues with A-ba.
(c) He doesn't bow to A-ma.
(d) He spits on the ground.

14. What type of love songs do the Akha sing?
(a) Round robin.
(b) Mountain call.
(c) Call and echo.
(d) Call and response.

15. What language do the children in Teacher Zhang's school want to learn?
(a) Akha.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Mandarin.
(d) Cantonese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to the village with Mr. Huang?

2. What is the dominant ethnicity in China?

3. Who does A-ma and A-ba hope Li-yan will marry?

4. What does Li-yan's father learn when they arrive at the tea collection center?

5. What news does Li-yan get from Teacher Zhang?

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