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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. Who seems to be the most distraught by the military fighting that is happening?

2. Why has Uncle Ke-ting been stealing from his wife?

3. How does Cheuh-min's running make Cheuh-hsin feel?

4. What does a writer from Peking try to convince Chinese youths to do?

5. What curse are the Kao women afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ming-feng do when she hears that she is to be Master Feng's concubine?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Master Kao respond to Ke-ting's misdeeds?

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

9. Describe the boat ride the cousins are on in Chapter 19.

10. How does Cheuh-hui hear of Ming-feng's death and what is his response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 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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