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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Teresa and her family get over their anger, and hug and kiss, Lena ______________________________________.
(a) Tells her father Teresa went down the fire escape
(b) Begins to have hope for her own life
(c) Is angry that she had to witness the fight
(d) Wishes her mother would get angry

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

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

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

5. An-Mei's mother shows up ___________________________.
(a) To help her mother in her illness
(b) To challenge An-Mei's aunt
(c) To retrieve An-Mei and her brother
(d) To reconcile with her children

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

7. How did Lena learn that a new baby was coming?
(a) Her aunt and uncle told her
(b) Her mother sat down and explained it to her
(c) Her father shared the news with her
(d) A used crib showed up in her bedroom

8. The old woman who buys a swan eventually _____________________________.
(a) Eats the swan to survive
(b) Takes the swan back to China
(c) Takes the swan to America
(d) Gives the swan to her daughter

9. An-Mei's brother lost his happiness when _______________________________________-.
(a) His grandmother began to die
(b) His abusive aunt told him about his mother
(c) His father watched him from a painting
(d) His grandmother punished him for laughing

10. Mah Jong is __________________.
(a) A word game
(b) A poker game
(c) A board game
(d) Fortune telling

11. What was Ying-Ying's unspoken wish?
(a) To be found
(b) To be trusted
(c) To become old
(d) To not be afraid

12. Rose is afraid to tell her mother about her divorce because _______________________________________.
(a) She does not want to confuse her
(b) Her mother warned her not to get married
(c) She knows her mother will disown her
(d) She knows her mother will want her to fix the marriage

13. The mother's fear for her child is that _______________________________________.
(a) The child will fall down and she will not hear her cry
(b) The child will be struck by an automobile
(c) The child will be kidnapped by strangers
(d) The child will become lost

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

15. An-Mei's mother left her behind in order to _____________________________________________.
(a) Save her from her new husband's disregard
(b) Save An-Mei from her own humiliated station in life
(c) Have her raised by a woman who was more stable
(d) Let her have a life with her younger brother

Short Answer Questions

1. An army officer told Suyuan Woo _________________________________-.

2. Between the child and mother there is a discernible sense of ______________________________.

3. In Chinese culture, respect for one's ancestors is called ___________.

4. Tyan-Yu was _____________________________.

5. Filling out so many forms at customs, the woman _________________________________________.

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