View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the father of Maxine's aunt's baby?
(a) A man who raped the narrator's aunt.
(b) The narrator does not know.
(c) The narrator's aunt's husband.
(d) The narrator's aunt's neighbor.

3. What substance is the girl shown that could allow her to live forever?
(a) Water from a gourd.
(b) Silver.
(c) White tiger hair.
(d) Tree sap.

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

5. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?
(a) She feels it shows sisterly affection.
(b) It is part of the Chinese culture.
(c) She does not have any brothers of her own.
(d) It is a sign of romantic affection.

6. Why does Maxine feel her aunt's ghost is suffering?
(a) She has unfinished business.
(b) She is loved by others.
(c) She must haunt the villagers.
(d) She must fight for food.

7. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
(a) Her aunt was not actually pregnant.
(b) Her aunt was raped.
(c) Her aunt was pregnant before her husband left.
(d) Her aunt was tortured.

8. What does Maxine's aunt do after delivering her baby?
(a) She hides her baby in the forest.
(b) She throws herself and her baby down the well.
(c) She runs away from the village with her baby.
(d) She returns to her home with her baby.

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

10. Who tells Maxine the story of her aunt?
(a) The narrator's grandmother.
(b) The narrator's sister.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The narrator's father.

11. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?
(a) A vision of her future.
(b) A letter from her parents.
(c) A sword with an inscription.
(d) An image in a water jug .

12. When the girl walks into the dead land, how does she find something to eat?
(a) A white rabbit jumps into her fire.
(b) She eats what she is carrying with her.
(c) The white tigers provide her with food.
(d) She quickly grows food from seeds she finds.

13. How many girl children were in Maxine's aunt's family?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

15. Whose ghost haunts Maxine?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's aunt.
(c) The narrator's baby cousin.
(d) The narrator's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group terrorizes Maxine's family in China?

2. What does Maxine question about her mother's stories?

3. What do the traditional Chinese stories, like those told by Maxine's mother, teach Chinese girls they can be?

4. Where does Maxine's aunt deliver her baby?

5. At what age is the girl taken to the mountains of the white tigers?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 544 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample