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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 did Lao find when Mantze is 12?
(a) A safe job.
(b) A living space of her own.
(c) A suitable husband for Mantze.
(d) Money for an education.

2. What kind of other servants lived with Lao at Major Liu's house?
(a) Cruel servants.
(b) No other servants.
(c) Unhelpful servants.
(d) Young servants.

3. In 1899, where did Lao's husband live?
(a) With Mantze's cousin.
(b) On the streets.
(c) At his employer's house.
(d) With Lao.

4. What benefit does Lao say she has from working for a Chinese family?
(a) They know the laws.
(b) They pay a living wage.
(c) They encourage her husband to stay with her.
(d) She can build a home life of her own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chang the Chen T'ai's Third and Fourth Mistresses live while Lao is in service?

2. During the New Year's holiday of 1895, what did the Japanese do?

3. Who nurses Lao and Mantze's babies?

4. Who helped with Mantze's wedding?

5. Why did Mantze not deliver her child at Lao's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lao's life with the military officials begin?

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

3. How did Lao and her husband's relationship change in 1899?

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

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

6. Why did Lao leave Major Liu's house a second time?

7. How dis Lao spend extra money on Mantze?

8. How was Lao's life with Chang the Chen T'ai?

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

10. What was Lao's life like while she lived with the civil officials?

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