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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wan-erh afraid of?

2. The boys walk home from school instead of riding in what?

3. Why are the boys hurrying home to dinner at the beginning of the book?

4. How does most of the Kao family treat servants and those of a lower class?

5. What word does not describe the Cheuh family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Uncle Ke-ting prepare for the fireworks show?

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

3. How does Mrs. Chang feel about Chin wanting to go to a boys' school?

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

5. What is a common theme seen in Chapters 4 through 6?

6. How does Cheuh-hui try to spend time with Ming-feng in Chapter 3?

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

8. How is Mei when her cousins first see her in Chapter 15?

9. How does Chueh-hui spend his house arrest?

10. What does Chueh-hsin share with his brothers about the night their father died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This novel delves heavily into various relationship, both family and romantic. Please choose two of the relationships that you observed in the novel and dissect it, the parties involved and the role that this relationship played in the novel at large. Did these relationships serve to further the plot, theme, mood, tone, etc.?

Essay Topic 2

Please choose on character to analyze using the five categories studied in your daily lessons.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay stating whether or not you believe this novel should be considered a tragedy, please use examples from the novel. Please also identify any tragic hero and explain any tragic flaw that exists for that hero.

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