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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. Which family member stumbles upon Mei and Cheuh-hsin in the garden?

2. What does Chin give to Cheuh-hui to take to Cheuh-min?

3. What is the name of Cheuh-hui's new magazine in Chapter 27?

4. When Cheuh-hui hears that Jui-cheuh has been moved what does he tell his older brother?

5. How does Cheuh-hui get the others to turn the boat around and head back home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jui-cheuh seem to respond to Mei initially?

2. What happens during Jui-cheuh's childbirth?

3. Why are the women scared of the curse of the blood-glow?

4. How does Cheuh-hui hear of Jui-cheuh's move and what is his response?

5. What do the superstitious family members do to try and rid Master Kao of his illness?

6. Why is Chien-erh burning paper money?

7. Why do two policemen come to Cheuh-hui's magazine office?

8. How does the family feel the night that fighting breaks out around the city?

9. Because of their fear of the curse, what to the women pressure Cheuh-hsin to do and how does his wife feel about this?

10. What is the entertainment like at Master Kao's birthday and how to the two youngest brothers feel about it?

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

We reviewed the practice of concubinage--what is concubinage and what role does it play in the story? What influence, if any, do you think the traditional social role of women in China during the early 1900s have on the practice of concubinage?

Essay Topic 3

Please compare and contrast conflict and climax in the story. Identify both the climax and conflict(s) in the novel and explain how they are linked to one another, if they are linked.

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