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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The characters in this parable are ______________________________.
(a) Waverly and her mother
(b) June Woo and her mother
(c) Rose and her mother
(d) Not yet known to the reader

3. Waverly gives up chess for good because she ________________________________-.
(a) No longer believes she has a gift
(b) Begins to lose tournaments
(c) Is tired of dealing with her mother
(d) Lost track of her strategy

4. An-Mei's brother cannot come with their mother because _______________________________.
(a) Boys must stay home to care for their aunts
(b) She has not invited him to follow her
(c) He would lose any hope for a future
(d) His aunt and uncle forbid it

5. In the mirror, the mother sees ______________________________.
(a) A new armoire
(b) Her daughter and husband happy
(c) Her future grandchild on her lap
(d) Her future grandchild's face

6. Why did Lena feel she caused Arnold's death?
(a) She compared him to lepers
(b) She intended for him to die
(c) Because she wounded him emotionally
(d) She ate all of her rice

7. Old Mr. Chou is ___________________________________.
(a) An old friend of An-Mei's
(b) A Chinese fortune teller
(c) A fantasy figure from the world of sleep
(d) A neighbor who tends Rose's garden

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

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

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

11. What is the supposed effect of a mirror at the foot of the bed?
(a) The mirror will reflect the wrong way
(b) It is bad luck to be able to see your partner while in bed
(c) Things in the marriage will turn backward
(d) Marriage happiness will bounce back

12. Ying-Ying feels that her daughter's home _________________________.
(a) Is boring and dull
(b) Is too fancy
(c) Is cold and unfriendly
(d) Has no life in it

13. An-Mei's mother told her a story of a tear-eating __________________.
(a) Turtle
(b) Popo
(c) Little pond
(d) Bird of joy

14. The grandmother wonders aloud whether ____________________________________________.
(a) The baby has come from a royal place with Buddha
(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 is laughing at her or with her

15. Ying-Ying feels that aborting her baby was ______________________.
(a) An act of strength
(b) An immature act
(c) A mortal sin
(d) A weak moment

Short Answer Questions

1. Lindo is ashamed that Waverly _________________________.

2. The vase that breaks in the bedroom symbolizes _____________________________.

3. The grandmother imagines the baby in this parable to be ________________________.

4. Three days of sleeping may have given Rose _________________.

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

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