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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the enemy's leader, a prince, steal from the woman?
(a) Her stories.
(b) Her head wrap.
(c) Her sword.
(d) Her bead pouch.

2. What did a medium once tell Maxine?
(a) That the narrator would live a long life.
(b) That the narrator could be a medium.
(c) That the narrator would never marry.
(d) That the narrator would be troubled by ghosts.

3. Where does Maxine's aunt deliver her baby?
(a) In her home.
(b) In her sister-in-law's home.
(c) In the pigsty.
(d) In the garden.

4. In No Name Woman, which character dies?
(a) The narrator's uncle.
(b) The narrator's aunt.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's mother.

5. At what age is the girl taken to the mountains of the white tigers?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

6. What does the old couple give the girl, now a young woman, as a parting gift?
(a) Two rabbit ears.
(b) A magic sword.
(c) A water gourd.
(d) Fifteen beads.

7. What does the woman give the women with bound feet?
(a) Salve and prayers.
(b) Bags of rice.
(c) Beads.
(d) New shoes.

8. What is the woman distracted by that leads to her capture?
(a) Deer tracks.
(b) Men.
(c) Birds.
(d) Wildflowers.

9. Where does the girl stay at the top of the mountain?
(a) A cave.
(b) A rock shelter.
(c) A hut.
(d) A tent.

10. What does the girl in Maxine's story follow at the beginning of the story?
(a) The whispers of a ghost.
(b) The shadows of the sun.
(c) The whistle of the wind.
(d) The call of a bird.

11. How often does Maxine's mother tell stories?
(a) Nightly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Once a year.
(d) Weekly.

12. According to the old couple, at what point will the girl be ready to leave them?
(a) When she can recite all of their teachings..
(b) When she can see visions in the water gourd
(c) When she can survive on the mountain of the white tigers.
(d) When she can point to the sky and a sword appears.

13. When Maxine's father leaves China, who goes with him?
(a) His sister.
(b) The other men in his family.
(c) Only his sister's husband.
(d) His wife and daughters.

14. Who is Kuan Kung?
(a) The woman's husband.
(b) The god of literature and war.
(c) The legendary heroine the woman looks up to.
(d) The emperor the woman is going to fight.

15. Who does the girl meet at the top of the mountain?
(a) An old man and an old woman.
(b) An elderly soothsayer.
(c) A ghost from her past.
(d) Her mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?

2. When did Maxine's aunt marry her husband?

3. What is the woman's first enemy?

4. In No Name Woman, who is telling the story?

5. What does legend say happens to the women with bound feet?

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