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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of demands did foreign families have for their maids?
(a) Clothes to wash, sew and mend.
(b) Children to watch and teach.
(c) Floors to mop and other things that need done.
(d) Meals to prepare for large parties.

2. During the New Year's holiday of 1895, what did the Japanese do?
(a) Visit the area.
(b) Warn the country.
(c) Spread disease.
(d) Bomb the city.

3. What did Lao do when Mantze is 15?
(a) Left the home of her employer.
(b) Kept Mantze's new job.
(c) Moved Mantze out of her school.
(d) Divorced her husband.

4. What was Ch'ien Lao-yeh qualified as?
(a) A gatekeeper.
(b) A sworn father.
(c) A district magistrate.
(d) A government official.

5. What condition did Mantze's husband leave her in?
(a) Deranged.
(b) Pregnant.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Starving.

6. Why did a shaman come to Chang the Chen T'ai's house one day?
(a) To settle a dispute.
(b) To take money.
(c) To toll a god out.
(d) To eat dinner.

7. What happened when two wives quarrel over Chang the Chen T'ai's favor one day?
(a) Another wife was called to help.
(b) Lao was called to intervene.
(c) The master leaves.
(d) The shaman was called.

8. What kind of demands did Chinese families have for their maids?
(a) They demand more without paying more.
(b) They have fewer demands of their maids than foreign missionaries.
(c) They are willing to pay more when they demand more.
(d) They have standard demands-the same everywhere.

9. How much food did Lao and Mantze have at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?
(a) Plenty.
(b) Leftovers.
(c) Scraps.
(d) None.

10. While working for Mrs. Burns, how did Lao keep her house?
(a) She never cleans it.
(b) She trusts Mantze to care for it.
(c) She spends a great deal of money on it.
(d) She does not have a house.

11. What did the bride of the oldest son of Major Liu's house do?
(a) Stole money for alcohol.
(b) Smoked lots of opium.
(c) Baked with the servants.
(d) Had affairs.

12. Who was Mantze's midwife?
(a) Mrs. Lan.
(b) Mrs. Burns.
(c) Mrs. Yuntze.
(d) Mrs. Chang.

13. How did Lao feel about scolding?
(a) She distrusted her mistress who scolded her.
(b) She disliked constant and unforgiving scolding.
(c) She never understood her scoldings.
(d) She ignored the scolding so it would go away.

14. How doid Mantze charm the Third Mistress?
(a) Mantze cleans her room.
(b) Mantze reads to her.
(c) Mantze tells her she wants to be with her.
(d) Mantze brushes her hair.

15. Why did Liu Ma become Lao's "sworn mother"?
(a) Lao needs help with Mantze.
(b) The sworn mother has devious reasons.
(c) The sworn mother knew Lao's birth mother.
(d) Lao's former mistress wants her to have one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mantze learn at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?

2. Where could Mantze not learn to be a good servant for her future mother-in-law?

3. In 1899, who leased the house Lao lives in?

4. What happens to the bride of the oldest son of Major Liu's house?

5. While Mantze lives with her husband, what did her husband bring home?

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