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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. Whom did Lao often play with at her husband's?
(a) Yantze.
(b) Chefoo.
(c) Mantze.
(d) Fats'ai and the other children.

2. What kind of hours did Lao's husband keep?
(a) Irregular.
(b) Regular.
(c) He works nights.
(d) He rarely worked.

3. With what did the wife of Lao's husband's cousin help Lao?
(a) Cooking skills.
(b) Housetending.
(c) Homesickness.
(d) Patience.

4. What did Yintze do when her visits with the parents came to an end?
(a) Stole from them.
(b) Happily left.
(c) Cried.
(d) Kept finding excuses to stay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lao feel about the wife of her husband's cousin living with her?

2. How did Fats'ai die?

3. While playing with Lao one day, what doid Fats'ai cry out for?

4. After Lao's father's business failed, why did he not show himself to the village when he returned?

5. In the past, what was Lao's family's financial situation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lao's husband like?

2. Why did neighbors believe Lao and other young women should not be outside their homes?

3. How did the awful events of 1887-1888 change Lao?

4. What began to happen to Lao's household before Mantze was born?

5. Why did Lao detail her bound feet?

6. What happened to Lao when she was thirteen?

7. Whom did Lao friend at her husband's home?

8. How were Lao's parents similar?

9. How did Lao's brother treat her?

10. What situation helped Lao as she moved to her husband's home?

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