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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. Waverly was named after ____________________________.
(a) The street where she lived
(b) The local department store
(c) The boat her family came to America in
(d) The local pastry bakery

2. Mah Jong is __________________.
(a) A board game
(b) A poker game
(c) Fortune telling
(d) A word game

3. When she was bored, Jing-mei ________________________________.
(a) Looked at herself in the mirro
(b) Counted the foghorn bellows on the bay
(c) Watched her mother jump up to adjust the television
(d) Read the Bible

4. The token saved from the swan carries with it ________________________________.
(a) A promise that she would learn English
(b) All the luck the woman did not have in China
(c) A fortune in memories
(d) All the woman's good intentions

5. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.
(a) Dim Sum
(b) Invisible strength
(c) How to shop
(d) Forbidden fruits

Short Answer Questions

1. What young Jing-Mei senses is that she will soon _________________________.

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

3. Rose was surprised that her mother had ___________________________.

4. The Hsu family went to beach so that Rose's father could __________________________.

5. Lindo Jong's family treated her ________________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What might Ying Ying have been planning to ask the Moon Lady for if she had not become lost?

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

3. Jing-Mei Woo's mother and Waverly Jong's mother compete through their daughters' failures and successes. Are the two women friends?

4. Discuss the "scar" reference. How did it happen and why?

5. Is Ying-Ying a neglected child?

6. Ying-Ying has remained a frightened child into her adulthood, and now her daughter is forced to live with Ying-Ying's fears. Why is Ying-Ying St. Clair so afraid?

7. How could a woman with twin babies leave them at the side of the road?

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

9. Why is Bing's name written in erasable pencil in the Bible's Death section?

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

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