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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. Why did Mantze return home after her marriage?
(a) Lao could not afford to maintain two households.
(b) Her husband beat her.
(c) Mantze's husband died.
(d) Mantze neeed to help her mother.

2. What best describes Lao's employers at Major Liu's house?
(a) Selfish and hurtful.
(b) Easy-going and kind.
(c) Cruel and mean.
(d) Indifferent and quiet.

3. At Major Liu's house, whom did Lao live with?
(a) Both of Major Liu's wives.
(b) Major Liu's second wife and her children.
(c) Major Liu and his family.
(d) Lao lived in the servant's house, alone.

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

5. Where did Lao take a job in 1899?
(a) Japan.
(b) With Mrs. Burns.
(c) On the riverboat.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Initially, how long was Mantze allowed to be with Lao at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?

3. What was Ch'ien Lao-yeh's house like?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How dis Lao spend extra money on Mantze?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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