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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ying-Ying, or Betty, is consumed with ______________.
(a) Fear
(b) Anger
(c) Jealousy
(d) Hunger

3. Ying-Ying's family is __________________.
(a) Well-to-do
(b) A poor family of servants
(c) A boat family
(d) A fishing family

4. 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

5. The old woman's daughter swallowed this, more than sorrow.
(a) Coca-Cola
(b) Green tea
(c) Humiliation
(d) Coffee

6. The woman's plans for the swan involve _________________________________.
(a) Giving the swan to her daughter
(b) Keeping it in America as a sacred pet
(c) Keeping it alive for good luck
(d) Feasting on it when she reaches America

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

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

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

10. What frightens Jing-mei the most is that _______________________________.
(a) She felt failure was inevitable
(b) She did not believe in herself
(c) She had no talent
(d) Her mother gave up hope

11. Lindo's mother-in-law _______________________________.
(a) Helped Lindo learn to read
(b) Isolated Lindo throughout her childhood
(c) Taught Lindo to be a good housewife
(d) Raised Lindo as her own child

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ying-Ying got dirty with turtle blood, Amah was afraid Ying-Ying's mother would _______________________________.

2. As national chess champion, Waverly is touted as __________________________.

3. At the Mah Jong table, Suyuan Woo always sat _________________________-.

4. Jing-mei's piano teacher is ________________________.

5. Which kind of daughter did Jing-mei's mother want?

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