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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. Where did the Chairman have a chance to study when he was a student, but turned it down?

2. In Chapter 7, how many weeks does Mei have to train to pretend to be a student?

3. Where did the Premier study in his youth?

4. How old was Mei when she met the Chairman?

5. In Chapter 8, what does Mei remember the tea that mother made her made was made from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mei's mother do for her and give her before Mei lives for Beijing?

2. What does Mei study with Teacher Fan in Chapter 11?

3. When does the Chairman die, and how do the people of Chinatown in San Francisco respond?

4. What happens to Dolly Yu?

5. What do Busy Shan and Mei do to Midnight Chang's clothes?

6. What are the lakes like at the Lake Palaces, and how were the lakes created?

7. What happens to those who leave the troupe?

8. In Chapter 4, how does Mei help Midnight Chang?

9. In Chapter 7, what is to be Mei's job?

10. How are lies born in Chinatown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mei loses her trust in the Chairman. How and why does Mei lose her trust in the Chairman? What act symbolizes how she loses trust in the Chairman?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of Forbidden City?

Essay Topic 3

Mei is given a mission in Chapter 7. What is her mission? Is she being used as a pawn?

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