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

3. During an epidemic in Shanghai, Ying-Ying worked in ____________________.
(a) Her relatives' home
(b) A clothing store
(c) A local hospital
(d) The farmers' market

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

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

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

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

8. 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 a good mother
(c) How to be Queen of the Western Skis
(d) How to forgive everyone

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

10. The grandmother imagines the baby in this parable to be ________________________.
(a) Empress of China
(b) Buddah's granddaughter
(c) Syi Wang Mu
(d) Hwai dungsyi

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

12. 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

13. An-Mei's mother was not always a fourth wife, but was once a _______________________.
(a) Model in Tientsin
(b) Second wife of a villager
(c) First wife of a scholar
(d) First wife of a poor servant

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

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