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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 part of Ming-Feng does Chueh-hui compare with Chin?
(a) Her independence.
(b) Her sense of style.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her intelligence.

2. What role does Chueh-hsin play in the fireworks display?
(a) He sings.
(b) He is a dancer.
(c) He sets off the fireworks.
(d) He provides live music.

3. How does Chin feel when her mother says she cannot attend the boys' school?
(a) She is happy.
(b) She gets angry and hates her mother.
(c) She does not care, she did not want to go anyway.
(d) She knows her mother loves her.

4. What position does Wan-erh hold in the Kao household?
(a) She is a sister-in-law.
(b) She is a concubine.
(c) She is a servant.
(d) She is a cousin.

5. What do Chin and Cheuh-min think of the boys shooting fireworks at the dancers?
(a) They do not see anything wrong with it.
(b) They think it is funny.
(c) They think it is mean.
(d) They think that it was necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what point in the first three chapters does the reader find out the brothers are from the gentry?

2. Why does Cheuh-hsin feel bad about thinking of Mei so much since he has last seen her?

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

4. What subject does Chueh-hsin expect to go study at university?

5. What seems to symbolize aristocracy to Chueh-hui?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chueh-hsin feel has happened to all his dreams in Chapter 6?

2. Why does Chueh-hui join students at the park after hearing what the soldiers have done?

3. What is Chueh-hui and Ming-feng's interaction like in Chapter 10?

4. Please describe Chin and her mother's relationship.

5. Please describe Chin.

6. What is the occurrence with Chueh-hui and the begger boy?

7. What secret does Chin share with her cousins about Chueh-hsin and Mei?

8. What do Chueh-hui and Jui-cheuh talk about in the garden?

9. What does Chin think about going to the boys school?

10. What is on Ming-feng's mind in Chapter 4?

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