View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the six women first meet?
(a) During a house fire evacuation.
(b) Where they went to school.
(c) At a local park.
(d) At the bank where they worked.

2. What does Meilan do when a wife tries to offend her?
(a) She speaks loudly to the husband.
(b) She embraces the husband.
(c) She screams at the wife.
(d) She whispers insults to the wife.

3. How does Mrs. Mo seem not to fit with the group?
(a) She was never married.
(b) She is good at tennis.
(c) She looks like a film star.
(d) She does not know how to dance.

4. How does the girl react when told she reminds men of their dead wives?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) She flinches.
(c) Never harshly.
(d) She gets quite offended.

5. What does not comfort the girl?
(a) Her youth.
(b) The stability of her job.
(c) The little things in life.
(d) Her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Chang show Meilan for the first time?

2. Who was the most eager to find a foreign life?

3. What did the women's mothers worry about?

4. Why is Meilan considered an opportunist by her siblings?

5. What nickname is given to Meilan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ailin alone?

2. What does she suggest to him?

3. How does the story end?

4. What is the significance of moving home?

5. What is Number Three, Garden Road about?

6. What is the effect of the documentary?

7. What is the nature of their secrets?

8. What is the end result?

9. What is the girl's situation?

10. What is Sweeping Past about?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 628 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample