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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When she immigrated,what did Lena's father rename Ying-Ying?
(a) Su
(b) Angel
(c) Betty
(d) Teresa

5. Ying Ying was disappointed to find out the Moon Lady in the play _________________________________.
(a) Was actually a man
(b) Was a figment of her imagination
(c) Was only an actress
(d) Could not grant wishes

6. Rose's mother, in exchange for Bing, gave to the ocean _____________________.
(a) Her teacup
(b) A bamboo pole
(c) Her bible
(d) A sapphire ring

7. Lena's great grandfather probably died from _____________________.
(a) Being murdered
(b) Influenza
(c) Being drowned
(d) Guilt and remorse

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

9. The child of this Chinese mother proves to be ______________________________.
(a) Happy to stay where t is safe
(b) Slightly slow
(c) Happy and rambunctious
(d) Strong willed and disrespectful

10. Popo says a girl who refused to listen to her elders ___________________________.
(a) Eventually poisoned herself
(b) Turned into an overrripe squash
(c) Shook her brains out of her ear
(d) Grew a large white melon in her stomach

11. Auntie had a tongue "like hungry scissors _________________________.
(a) cutting my confidence."
(b) cutting a colorless winter melon."
(c) tearing at the heart."
(d) eating silk cloth."

12. The mother appears certain that _________________________.
(a) The child will respect her wishes
(b) The child will be obedient
(c) The child will be captured
(d) The child will fall

13. The woman intends to learn in America how to __________________________________.
(a) Open a business for Chinese
(b) Raise swans where they are free
(c) Speak perfect American English
(d) Raise her own food

14. Rose realizes that fate is shaped half by expectation, and _________________________.
(a) Half by negative thinking
(b) Half by the gods
(c) Half by pride
(d) Half by inattention

15. The mother's superstitions may have been confirmed when ___________________________.
(a) The child's bike was broken
(b) The child fell from the bike
(c) The child made it around the corner
(d) The two argued about the dangers

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman's feels her daughter __________________.

2. Rose's mother admitted to God that _______________________.

3. The woman's plans for the swan involve _________________________________.

4. The only father An-Mei knows is ___________________.

5. How did Jing-mei justify her defiance of her mother?

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