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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. Why will a second mirror help the daughter?
(a) Two mirrors balance the emotions
(b) The two mirrors will multiply luck
(c) Bad omens dissolve between the two
(d) Another mirror will scare away bad energy

2. Why did Lena hate Arnold so much?
(a) He wanted to be her husband
(b) He frightened her
(c) He was cruel to her
(d) He was the cause of her eating problem

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

4. Rose finds the imagery of Ted doing monkey business __________________.
(a) Unnerving
(b) Disgusting
(c) Outrageous
(d) Humorous

5. Ying-Ying feels that her daughter's home _________________________.
(a) Is cold and unfriendly
(b) Is boring and dull
(c) Has no life in it
(d) Is too fancy

Short Answer Questions

1. Ying-Ying feels that aborting her baby was ______________________.

2. Ted makes the assumption that ______________________-.

3. At lunch together, Waverly's mother _____________________________________.

4. Jing-Mei Woo travels to China with ____________________-.

5. An-Mei finds that in Tientsin, she has a __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lena have such a strange financial relationship with Harold?

2. Lindo knows Waverly's weak spots, and pokes at them. Discuss what they are.

3. The fact that June Woo's mother has searched for a lifetime for her two daughters, and then dies before she can see them again, is strongly ironic. How might the story have been different if she had lived to make the trip to China and reunited with her daughters?

4. Did Lena's mother knock the table over that shattered the vase in her bedroom?

5. Ying-Ying's story is vast and complex, and one that her daughter has never known or understood. Why, in this chapter, has she decided to tell Lena everything about her life?

6. Is there a character in this story who might be represented in this parable?

7. How does it affect Jing-Mei to meet her long lost sisters in China?

8. It becomes more obvious in this chapter the kinds of adults that Jing-Mei and Waverly have grown into. Who is more likable?

9. Why is An-Mei's family so miserable?

10. What does Jing-Mei's mother mean when she says that everyone else, with the exception of Jing-Mei, wants the best quality? How is Jing-Mei different?

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