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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What the daughter sees in the mirror is _____________________.
(a) Her mother's face
(b) Her mother's face and her own
(c) Her future granchild's face
(d) Her own face

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

3. The grandmother admits that she ______________________________-.
(a) Knows she will live forever
(b) Taught her daughter to be free
(c) Taught her daughter to shed her innocence
(d) Taught her daughter to be suspicious

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

5. Rose Hu's confession that her marriage is ending prompts An-Mei to __________________________________-.
(a) Become depressed, as she was in childhood
(b) Compare her to her aunt
(c) Beg Rose to not lose hope
(d) Relive the memories of her childhood

6. Suyuan Woo compares Waverly to a crab, saying she _________________________________________.
(a) She is missing something, like the crab's leg
(b) Is always moving sideways and crooked
(c) Her claws are sharp but slow, like the crab
(d) She is without feelings, like the crab

7. Ying-Ying's name means _____________________.
(a) Clear Reflection
(b) Quiet Spirit
(c) Timid Bird
(d) Flying Tiger

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

9. For dinner, Jing-mei and Canning share with his relatives ____________________________.
(a) Hamburgers, fries and apple pie
(b) Soup in a carved melon
(c) Peking duck and noodles
(d) Chicken wrapped in clay

10. What does the jade pendant symbolize?
(a) Fertility
(b) Three pears
(c) We do not know
(d) Pomegranates

11. At lunch together, Waverly's mother _____________________________________.
(a) Is concerned about her heart
(b) Criticizes Waverly's choice of friends
(c) Criticizes everything about the restaurant and food
(d) Is nervous and skittery

12. Lindo's mother told her as a child that _________________________________.
(a) She would follow her nose to good luck
(b) She would grow up to be unfortunate
(c) She would marry well
(d) She would later learn to worry and lose her hair

13. Three days of sleeping may have given Rose _________________.
(a) A break from work
(b) A deeper sense of confusion
(c) A new strength
(d) New nightmares about Ted

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Clifford St. Clair's gifts to Ying-Ying were ___________________________.

2. Lindo is disappointed that she could not __________________________________.

3. This daughter is tired of her mother's habit of ______________________________.

4. Rich's reaction to his unintended insults toward Lindo was _________________________________________.

5. Rose being "without wood" symbolizes ________________________.

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