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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chueh-min run inside to do before heading off to dinner?
(a) Change his clothes.
(b) Start his homework.
(c) Talk to his mother.
(d) Sneak a bit of dessert.

2. At what point in the first three chapters does the reader find out the brothers are from the gentry?
(a) When the boys are walking home.
(b) When the boys names and ages are being shared.
(c) When Chueh-hui first speaks to Ming-Feng.
(d) During dinner.

3. What fear does Ming-Feng have?
(a) She will not have servants of her own someday.
(b) That she will not have children.
(c) She will never have a home of her own.
(d) That she will die young.

4. Besides the boys' cousin, what other relatives are at dinner during the first three chapters of the story?
(a) Their great-grandfather.
(b) Two aunts.
(c) The boys grandparents.
(d) Two uncles.

5. Who does Chueh-hui overhear speaking with a maid in Chapter 10?
(a) Master Kao.
(b) Madame Chou.
(c) Chin.
(d) Ming-feng.

6. How old is Ming-Feng?
(a) Seventeen years old.
(b) Fourteen years old.
(c) Sixteen years old.
(d) Nineteen years old.

7. Why does Cheuh-hsin feel bad about thinking of Mei so much since he has last seen her?
(a) Because he knows she does not love him.
(b) Because he thinks this would displease his father.
(c) Because he really does not like Mei.
(d) Because he loves his wife and son so much.

8. What is Chueh-hsin's hope for his son?
(a) That he will enter the army.
(b) That he will love his wife as Chueh-hsin does.
(c) That will carry out Chueh-hsin's thwarted dreams.
(d) That he will refuse to follow traditions.

9. How are family members seated at the New Year's Eve feast?
(a) By gender.
(b) By height.
(c) By family relation.
(d) By rank.

10. Why is Cheuh-hsin hiding behind a shelter at the other end of the Kao compound?
(a) He is not feeling well and did not want to worry them.
(b) He is hiding from his responsibilities.
(c) He is thinking.
(d) He is playing hide and seek with his son.

11. Where are the brothers walking home from at the opening of the book?
(a) From the temple.
(b) From a friend's house.
(c) From the market place.
(d) From school.

12. In Chapter 14, where does Cheuh-hsin tell his brothers he has seen Mei?
(a) At a silk shop.
(b) In the city square.
(c) At a department store.
(d) At a restaurant.

13. Who ruined the student play in Chapter 7?
(a) Chueh-hui.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Beggers trying to get money.
(d) Rowdy children from another school.

14. Why does Chueh-hsin love plum blossoms so much?
(a) Because Mei's name means "plum blossom."
(b) Because his mother used to pick them for him.
(c) Because of their scent.
(d) Because they remind him of the spring.

15. What decision does Chueh-hui make, despite the fact it may anger his grandfather?
(a) He decides to leave the city and set out on his own.
(b) He decides to advocate revolutionary thinking.
(c) He decides to no longer stay at home.
(d) He decides to write his own liberal magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much younger than Chueh-min is Chueh-hui?

2. Why has Mei returned to Chengtu?

3. What is it that Master Kao does for the gods?

4. Who do the cousins agree not to tell of Mei's return to town?

5. Who puts on the dragon show for the family?

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