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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.
(a) Depressed
(b) Afraid
(c) Angry
(d) Lost

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

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

4. Rose's mother admitted to God that _______________________.
(a) Their was an ancestral debt
(b) They had been careless
(c) She had sacred powers
(d) Rose had not taught Bing manners

5. The event that clouds An-Mei's early memory of her mother was _________________________________________________.
(a) She fell as she ran toward her mother
(b) She was severely burned as her mother was leaving
(c) She becomes convinced her that her mother was dead
(d) Her aunt slapped her face

Short Answer Questions

1. An-Mei Hsu uses her Bible as ___________________________________.

2. Jing-mei shocked the anger out of her mother by _______________________________________.

3. An-Mei lives in the house owned by ___________________________.

4. Lindo was able to convince her in-laws to end her marriage by ______________________________.

5. A man on the street leers and acts threatening to Lena's mother. Her mother feels this happened because ______________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. The parable is obviously based on a current-day story in which one of the mothers in the book tries to warn her daughter of her superstitions. Discuss other instances in the book up until this point where mothers feel they know so much more than their daughters.

2. The soup An-Mei's mother made for her dying mother was the ultimate show of love for her mother. What does it symbolize?

3. Discuss Ying-Ying's mental state and some of its origins.

4. An-Mei has an interesting way of storing her Bible. Discuss where the Bible is kept, and why.

5. Why would Lindo begin to think of her cruel husband as a god?

6. Since the little girl is too young to be told about them all, discuss what some of the twenty-six malignant gates might be.

7. What is the root problem in Rose's marriage?

8. Discuss why the woman has never told her daughter about the single feather she kept from the swan.

9. Discuss how it is that the Italian girl next door provides a sense of peace for Lena.

10. Jing-Mei Woo's mother has great expectations of her daughter. Why is she like this?

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