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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Pages 39-73.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did neighbors criticize Lao's mother?
(a) Her husband cooked better than she.
(b) She beat her children.
(c) She did not understand the need to save money.
(d) Her kids ran wild.

2. Who is Fats'ai's father?
(a) Lao never tells the readers.
(b) Yintze's husband.
(c) Lao's father.
(d) Liu-Yi-tze.

3. What did Lao do for the old woman who fed her?
(a) Paid her.
(b) Tended her garden.
(c) Nursed her until her death.
(d) Gave her Lao's mother's leftover medicine.

4. How did Fats'ai die?
(a) From a broken neck.
(b) From drowning.
(c) From a beating.
(d) From smallpox.

5. Who often fed Lao when there was nothing in her house to eat after Fats'ai's mother left?
(a) Her parents.
(b) A cousin of her husband's father.
(c) Yintze.
(d) Her brother and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raised Lao's father?

2. What did the neighbors do concerning Lao and Fats'ai's mother's relationship after Fats'ai's death?

3. Why did Yintze's parents react in such a way as Yintze left their visits?

4. What happened to Lao in 1881?

5. Where did Fats'ai hide while playing with Lao one day?

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