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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rich's reaction to his unintended insults toward Lindo was _________________________________________.
(a) He never realized he had done anything wrong
(b) He admitted his bleak failure
(c) He was loyal to Waverly
(d) He thinks they do not like him

2. Lindo's oldest son, Winston, ___________________________.
(a) Went away to school
(b) Is a Chinese Baptist
(c) Died in a car accident at sixteen
(d) Went to college and became a doctor

3. How did Lena's eating problem manifest itself?
(a) Her mother's sack lunches made her sick
(b) Her hatred consumed her
(c) She became anorexic
(d) Her skin broke out like leprosy

4. Jing-Mei Woo travels to China with ____________________-.
(a) Her father
(b) Her sisters
(c) Her aunties
(d) Her children

5. This daughter is tired of her mother's habit of ______________________________.
(a) Seeing bad omens in everything
(b) Warning her about her marriage
(c) Trying to fix everything
(d) Projecting her negativity outward

6. Waverly chooses the best crab on the platter for _______________________.
(a) Herself
(b) Her daugher, Shoshanna
(c) Her fiance, Rich
(d) June Woo

7. Lindo is disappointed that she could not __________________________________.
(a) Instill Chinese character in her daughter
(b) Get her daughter to give up American ways
(c) Teach her daughter to do things the easy way
(d) Teach her daughter how to better speak Chinese

8. The grandmother wonders aloud whether ____________________________________________.
(a) The baby is laughing at her or with her
(b) She sees negative things in others because she has them herself
(c) She is truly innocent or holds many secrets inside
(d) The baby has come from a royal place with Buddha

9. Lindo disapproves of Waverly's mink because ___________________________.
(a) She does not believe in animal furs
(b) She feels it is too cheap
(c) The individual hairs are uneven
(d) She thinks it is too extravagant

10. The grandmother asks the baby to teach her mother how to lose innocence, without losing hope, and _________________________-.
(a) How to laugh forever
(b) How to be Queen of the Western Skis
(c) How to be a good mother
(d) How to forgive everyone

11. An-Mei's mother makes life in Tientsin sound __________________________________.
(a) A city filled with foreigners
(b) Abundant and exciting
(c) A dangerous tourist town
(d) Frightening and mysterious

12. An-Mei finds that in Tientsin, she has a __________________.
(a) Cousins
(b) Brother
(c) New husband
(d) New mother

13. Waverly has an ignorant fear of Jing-mei's hairdresser _______________________________.
(a) Because she fears for her daughter
(b) Because he works on Howard Street
(c) Because he is gay
(d) Because he is reckless

14. Waverly had to become ill before her mother would _____________________________-.
(a) Feed her again
(b) Encourage her to play
(c) Speak to her again
(d) Forbid her to play

15. Jing-Mei's paternal aunt and her father speak ____________________.
(a) Sechuan
(b) The Mandarin dialect
(c) The Cantonese dialect
(d) English

Short Answer Questions

1. The pastor, Wing, was a __________________________-.

2. Ying-Ying's name means _____________________.

3. The mother has purchased a new mirror at _______________________.

4. Ying-Ying feels that her daughter's home _________________________.

5. During an epidemic in Shanghai, Ying-Ying worked in ____________________.

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