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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lau Chen?

2. What expression does Moi have on her face after Pei and Lin speak to her and she is back in the kitchen in Chapter 16?

3. What does Lin suggest that she and Pei do at the start of the New Year's?

4. Who does Auntie Yee dream of the night she dies?

5. What advantage does Chung think he has over the factory workers when they are making up for lost revenue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wong Tai seat Pei at a table with foreigners during Ho Chee's wedding banquet?

2. What does Lin do when the fire starts in the factory?

3. What does Pei see Wong Tai doing in the garden the morning after the wedding banquet?

4. What is Pei's reaction to Lin's family home?

5. What does Pei dream about her mother after she has died?

6. How do the girls finally discover that Auntie Yee is sick?

7. What is Yu-sung's physical state?

8. What is the Ghost Feast?

9. What is the state of affairs at the factory after New Year's?

10. Describe Pao's physical appearance.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Yu-sung's marriage to Pao. How is her life with Pao very different from what she was used to in her family's home? Provide specific textual examples to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the silk factory and the work that is done there. What is Pei's reaction the first time she sees the silk work? How does she quickly become a valued worker?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of death in this novel and specifically the deaths of Mei-li, Sui Ying, and Lin. In what way does each girl's death reveal a truth about the society in which they lived?

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