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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
(a) Her aunt had a child born from the gods.
(b) Her aunt visited her husband in America.
(c) Her aunt was a wild woman and enjoyed the man she was with.
(d) Her aunt was re-married to another man.

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

4. Which of these Chinese customs does Maxine comment on?
(a) Talking loudly.
(b) Walking erect.
(c) Remaining silent at the dinner table.
(d) All of the above.

5. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?
(a) With their in-laws.
(b) In the same home.
(c) Outside the village
(d) In their own homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In No Name Woman, which character dies?

2. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?

3. How old is Maxine at the beginning of the fantastical story she tells about herself?

4. When Maxine re-tells the story of her aunt, the narrator's story shows that the aunt's final actions are done out of _____.

5. How does the woman kill the baron of her village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothers the narrator the most about the mentally retarded man who comes and sits in the laundry?

2. What is narrator's impression of her mother when looking at the old medical school photograph?

3. What are two of the three Chinese customs the narrator comments on after pondering how her aunt became pregnant?

4. Why do you think the author emphasized that all of Brave Orchid's children majored in science and math?

5. According to Moon Orchid, which of Brave Orchid's children are happy?

6. What are at least two of the most difficult things on the narrator's list that she tells her mother?

7. How did the narrator once believe she could tell the difference between sane and insane people?

8. Explain how the girl in the white tigers fantasy story meets the old couple who train her.

9. How do Moon Orchid and Brave Orchid act when they are reunited for the first time in years?

10. Explain how the narrator's aunt dies.

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