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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. What kind of woman was Old Mistress Chang?
(a) Giving and secretive.
(b) Odd and mystical.
(c) Harsh and demanding.
(d) Kind and sweet.

2. What did Lao share about Ch'ien Lao-yeh's family?
(a) They keep secrets.
(b) They have been in the law for generations.
(c) They are thiefs who run from authorities.
(d) They have very little money.

3. Why did Major Liu give Mantze and Lao food and time?
(a) So Mantze will recover from smallpox.
(b) Because he had extra money for more workers.
(c) To earn Lao's trust.
(d) Because he felt sad that Lao took care of his sick family.

4. What did Liu Ma promise concerning Lao?
(a) To care for her as a mother would.
(b) To take care of her children since Lao cannot.
(c) To keep her job while she is gone.
(d) To give will her money when she dies.

5. What did Lao and her husband do for Mantze's husband?
(a) Got him out of jail.
(b) Put him on a boat.
(c) Gave him a house.
(d) Found him a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lao do when Mantze is 15?

2. What happened when two wives quarrel over Chang the Chen T'ai's favor one day?

3. What did the bride of the oldest son of Major Liu's house do?

4. After employment with Change the Chen, where did Lao work?

5. Where did Lao take a job in 1899?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Lao invite her husband back into her life?

2. How did Lao feel when her husband died? Why?

3. How did Lao help the master with the mistresses during a fight?

4. What did Lao realize while she was at Ch'ien Lao-yeh's house?

5. What happened the day a shaman arrived at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?

6. How had Mantze's husband changed when he returned after the birth of Mantze's second daughter?

7. How did Mantze's second daughter and Lao's son grow up together?

8. How dis Lao spend extra money on Mantze?

9. What happened with Lao when she quarreled with her mistress at Major Liu's house?

10. How did Lao feel about her overall life with Major Liu?

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