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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At 13, what did Lao's parents do to her?
(a) Changed the length of her dresses.
(b) Changed her hairstyle.
(c) Changed her to smaller shoes.
(d) Changed her bedroom.

2. What job did Lao's father have in a store?
(a) Working as a clerk.
(b) Cleaning the sidewalks.
(c) Selling feed.
(d) Keeping books.

3. What freedom did Lao's mother allow her as a child?
(a) To ignore school.
(b) To eat a variety of food.
(c) To run without bound feet.
(d) To play with her sister outside.

4. By the time Lao was born, what had happened to her family's finances?
(a) The family hid it from the government.
(b) The finances had grown.
(c) The family squandered the inheritance.
(d) They gave money to religious organizations.

5. How did Lao and Fats'ai's mother's relationship change after Fats'ai's death?
(a) Fats'ai's mother refused to speak to Lao.
(b) Fats'ai's mother relied on Lao.
(c) Fats'ai's mother continually quarreled with Lao.
(d) Fats'ai's mother took care of Lao's children.

6. What eventually happened to Fats'ali's mother?
(a) She remarried.
(b) She died.
(c) She had another boy.
(d) She returned to Lao's home.

7. 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) Her brother and his wife.
(d) Yintze.

8. How did Lao feel about the wife of her husband's cousin living with her?
(a) Confused.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Worried.
(d) Annoyed.

9. What happened the first time Lao's feet were bound?
(a) Lao's parents arranged her marriage.
(b) Lao contracted "heavenly blossoms."
(c) Lao's feet broke free.
(d) Lao's sister became jealous.

10. Where was Lao born?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Laos.
(c) P'englai.
(d) India.

11. What did Lao's mother struggle with when she had her own household?
(a) How to cook well.
(b) How to organize.
(c) How to buy food.
(d) How to handle a household.

12. How did Fats'ai's mother think her son died?
(a) That the doctor misdiagnosed him.
(b) That Lao "frightened him to death."
(c) That he ran into traffic.
(d) That he died of smallpox.

13. What is the date of Lao's childhood?
(a) 1855-1878.
(b) Early 1900s.
(c) Late 1800s.
(d) 1867-1870.

14. Why did Lao return to the home of her husband?
(a) Lao and her sister caused their parents too much grief.
(b) Lao did not know how to beg.
(c) Lao's parents had no money.
(d) Lao's parents did not want her.

15. In the past, what was Lao's family's financial situation?
(a) They always wasted money.
(b) They never had money.
(c) They earned honest wages.
(d) The family was wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Lao's father when she was born?

2. What sort of events happened in the village, according to Lao?

3. What kind of cook was Lao's father?

4. What is the title of the prologue?

5. Whom did Fats'ai's mother blame for his death?

(see the answer keys)

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