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

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

3. What did Lao's husband do with their youngest daughter?
(a) Put her up for adoption.
(b) Sent her to school.
(c) Beat her.
(d) Sold her.

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

5. How long did the wife of Liu-Yi-tze's cousin stay with Lao?
(a) Five months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of life did Lao's mother lead as a youngster?

2. Whom did Lao often play with at her husband's?

3. How many siblings did Lao's father have?

4. What did Lao's sister do when their uncle came for a visit?

5. What did Lao's father's job in a store require of him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What awful events did Lao endure during 1887-1888?

2. How did Lao behave when she visited her parents?

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

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

5. What was Lao's husband like during the early part of their marriage?

6. What happened to Lao when she was thirteen?

7. Why would neighbors criticize Lao's mother?

8. After Lao's two daughters were born, what life choice did she make?

9. What was Lao's husband like?

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

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