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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. Ted is frustrated with Lena because ___________________________.
(a) She cannot make a decision
(b) She wants to control the relationship
(c) She is still attached to her family
(d) She does not like his mother

2. An-Mei Hsu grew up with ___________________________________.
(a) Her mother and father
(b) Her father and her little brother
(c) Her auntie and uncle
(d) Her grandmother and her little brother

3. Suyuan Woo packed all of her belongings into a _________________.
(a) Four wheeled cart
(b) A back pack
(c) A kimono sling
(d) Wheelbarrow

4. When she immigrated,what did Lena's father rename Ying-Ying?
(a) Su
(b) Betty
(c) Teresa
(d) Angel

5. Amah is Ying-Ying's ___________.
(a) Sister
(b) Nursemaid
(c) Aunt
(d) Mother

Short Answer Questions

1. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.

2. Lindo Jong is promised in marriage when she _________________________.

3. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.

4. Suyuan Woo's beautiful mah jong table was made of __________________.

5. Waverly's anger toward her mother is because ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the unusual circumstances under which Lena lives.

2. Why did An-Mei's mother return to her sister's home where she was so unwanted and rejected? Was her mother the person An-Mei had thought she was?

3. Rose's mother, An-Mei Hsu, has raised quite a large family in America. What might have made her want so many children?

4. Waverly Place Jong is named after the street she lives on in San Francisco. Discuss other instances where children are named after localities, ideas or unusual things.

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

6. Waverly's unusual talent becomes a reason to pamper and spoil her. Does she appreciate this treatment? How does it affect her?

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

8. What triggers Ying-Ying's early memory of her traumatic fall from the family boat?

9. Does the little girl fall from the bicycle because her mother is right, or because she is afraid her mother is right, or is it just a chance circumstance?

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

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