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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The child's mother responds to the question about the twenty six gates, by _________________________________.
(a) Dragging out an old Chinese book
(b) Silently ignoring the child's question
(c) Holding and rocking the child
(d) Writing the bad things on paper

3. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.
(a) How to shop
(b) Forbidden fruits
(c) Dim Sum
(d) Invisible strength

4. Waverly replaces the missing chess pieces with _____________________.
(a) Ones she makes from dough
(b) Lifesavers
(c) Stones from the alley
(d) Her brother's submarine figures

5. Lena's father's heritage is __________________.
(a) Cantonese
(b) English-Irish
(c) Mandarin
(d) Italian

6. Waverly Jong learned the finer points of chess from ___________________.
(a) Ping Yuen
(b) Hong Sing
(c) Lau Po
(d) Winston Jong

7. The child finally decides to ______________________.
(a) Try a different route
(b) Run away from home
(c) Be a better child
(d) Defy the mother

8. Rose had to care for her brothers to learn ________________________.
(a) Parenting skills
(b) Fishing techniques
(c) Yiding, or responsibility
(d) Water safety

9. Suyuan Woo's husband leaves her to __________________________.
(a) Get far from Kweilin
(b) Defect to Japan
(c) Fight for the Chinese Army
(d) Make his way to Shanghai

10. An army officer told Suyuan Woo _________________________________-.
(a) To go to her husband in Chungking
(b) That her babies will be fine
(c) To hold on to her silk dresses
(d) That the Japanese are losing the war

11. The symbolic burning of the Five Evils was actually ___________________________.
(a) A box with Five Evils inside
(b) A box containing insects
(c) A cooling ritual
(d) A green coil of burning incense

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

13. Tyan-Yu was _____________________________.
(a) An overbearing brute of a husband
(b) A sex addict
(c) Much like a brave Chinese warrior
(d) Like a small child who never grew up

14. A Chinese Santa Claus asked Waverly ______________________________________.
(a) If she knew her proper age
(b) If she had been good to her parents
(c) If she believed in Jesus and obeyed her parents
(d) If she really believed in Santa Claus

15. Rose's mother admitted to God that _______________________.
(a) Their was an ancestral debt
(b) They had been careless
(c) Rose had not taught Bing manners
(d) She had sacred powers

Short Answer Questions

1. An-Mei's brother lost his happiness when _______________________________________-.

2. What was Ying-Ying's unspoken wish?

3. Mah Jong is __________________.

4. The old woman wants to use perfect English to explain ________________________________.

5. In order to promote her fertility, Lindo was given ________________________.

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