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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Twenty Six Malignant Gates is about _____________________________________________.
(a) The bad things that can happen outside the house's protection
(b) The crime that lies beyond the gates
(c) The diseases that are contagious and looming outside
(d) The dangers present when one travels on wheels

2. An-Mei's mother is considered a "ghost" because _________________________________.
(a) She has deserted her children
(b) She is only a fourth wife
(c) She has had too many children
(d) She had children out of wedlock

3. Jeing-mei learns that her mother's lost babies ______________________________________.
(a) Died a very poor woman
(b) Died while searching for her lost babies
(c) Wished she had not raised her in America
(d) Have been found alive and well

4. Lindo was forced to live with her future in-laws because ______________________________________.
(a) Her dowry had gotten large enough
(b) She was too old to stay at home
(c) A flood wiped our her family's home
(d) Her family disowned her

5. The pregnant servant girl became convinced that she ____________________________.
(a) Was doomed to live in poverty
(b) Had caused Lindo's infertility
(c) Was in love with Tyan-yu
(d) Was of imperial ancestry

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ying-Ying's rescuers determine she was not a beggar?

2. The mother's fear for her child is that _______________________________________.

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

4. Auntie had a tongue "like hungry scissors _________________________.

5. The event that clouds An-Mei's early memory of her mother was _________________________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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