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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Parable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ying-Ying's rescuers determine she was not a beggar?
(a) She had on embroidered clothing
(b) She did not speak but could only cry
(c) She was pale with soft feet
(d) Her manners were polished

2. An-Mei's brother lost his happiness when _______________________________________-.
(a) His grandmother punished him for laughing
(b) His abusive aunt told him about his mother
(c) His grandmother began to die
(d) His father watched him from a painting

3. Throughout the discussion between the mother and child, the mother continues to _______________.
(a) Read
(b) Rock in her chair
(c) Cook
(d) Knit

4. Lindo was able to convince her in-laws to end her marriage by ______________________________.
(a) Playing into their superstitions
(b) Crying and wailing
(c) Offering them all of her gold
(d) Being infertile

5. An-Mei Hsu grew up with ___________________________________.
(a) Her mother and father
(b) Her father and her little brother
(c) Her grandmother and her little brother
(d) Her auntie and uncle

Short Answer Questions

1. The winner of the American Mah Jong game takes home _________________________.

2. The symbolic burning of the Five Evils was actually ___________________________.

3. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.

4. Jeing-mei learns that her mother's lost babies ______________________________________.

5. In Chinese culture, respect for one's ancestors is called ___________.

(see the answer key)

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