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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 must be done to Master Kao's coffin to keep him safe from curses?

2. What does Cheuh-hsin tell Mei when he sees her in the garden?

3. Who tells Ming-Feng that she is to become Master Feng's concubine?

4. Why is Cheuh-hui sick of the aristocratic life?

5. How is Cheuh-min's mindset in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Cheuh-hsin try to help Cheuh-min with his arranged marriage?

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

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

7. How does Cheuh-hui feel about his life after Ming-feng's death?

8. What are Master Kao's last dying words to his grandsons?

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

10. What is the general response to the death of Master Kao?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Please explain the importance and role of a plot line and its various sub-parts. Choose two of the sub-parts of a plot line and analyze their use in the book "Family."

Essay Topic 3

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.?

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