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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) streaming
(b) swaddling
(c) bandaging
(d) footbinding

2. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?
(a) The woman keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.
(b) The woman wants her visitor to leave right away.
(c) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.
(d) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.

3. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) an island
(b) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble
(c) the top of Sandalwood Mountain
(d) a hat to protect the Chinese workers

4. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(b) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(c) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(d) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.

5. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums
(b) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(c) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet
(d) make Tang sit in the rain and wind

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?

2. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

3. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?

4. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?

5. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?

(see the answer key)

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