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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the city, a new type of thinking allows _________________________________.
(a) Women to choose their husbands
(b) A man to choose his own wife
(c) A woman to marry without permission
(d) People to live together unmarried

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

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

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

5. How did Jing-mei justify her defiance of her mother?
(a) Obedience does not make talent
(b) Her mother had left her babies
(c) She knows her mother is wrong
(d) They are in America, not China

6. Waverly's mother uses Waverly __________________________.
(a) To help with housework
(b) As a source of pride
(c) As a second income stream
(d) To preserve her Chinese customs

7. Waverly was named after ____________________________.
(a) The local pastry bakery
(b) The local department store
(c) The boat her family came to America in
(d) The street where she lived

8. Rose's mother recorded Bing's death _______________________.
(a) By hiding the Bible
(b) With disappearing ink
(c) With a flowery inscription
(d) With an erasable pencil

9. Jing-mei shocked the anger out of her mother by _______________________________________.
(a) Telling her she wished she were not her mother
(b) Making reference to the dead twins
(c) Refusing to practice on the piano
(d) Telling her she was no genius

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

11. The swan represents to the old woman ____________________________.
(a) The beauty of nature
(b) Freedom and a new life
(c) Flight to a new land
(d) All of her treasures and values

12. Amah is Ying-Ying's ___________.
(a) Sister
(b) Mother
(c) Nursemaid
(d) Aunt

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tyan-Yu was _____________________________.

2. Lena St. Clair's mother appears to be _______________________.

3. The woman transported the swan ____________________________.

4. Besides losing her name, Lena's mother lost ________________________.

5. An-Mei's mother is considered a "ghost" because _________________________________.

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