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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. Lindo knows that Chinese people will know that her daughter ___________________.
(a) Is a good wife
(b) Is highly educated
(c) Is well-to-do
(d) Is not Chinese

2. The grandmother wonders if the child is laughing because __________________________________.
(a) She is seeing her grandmother's suspicious nose
(b) Buddha is teaching her to laugh for no reason
(c) She knows her grandmother has become evil
(d) She knows more about the world than most

3. The grandmother admits that she ______________________________-.
(a) Knows she will live forever
(b) Taught her daughter to be free
(c) Taught her daughter to be suspicious
(d) Taught her daughter to shed her innocence

4. Suyuan Woo feels that by wearing the jade pendant, Jing-mei will _____________________________.
(a) Be a good daughter
(b) Understand her life's importance
(c) Find a good relationship
(d) Have stronger self-esteem

5. The sisters in China were told their mother was dead by __________________.
(a) A letter from Auntie Lindo
(b) Jing-Mei
(c) A phone call from Auntie An-Mei
(d) A telegram from Jing-Mei's father

Short Answer Questions

1. The vase that breaks in the bedroom symbolizes _____________________________.

2. Lindo's mother told her as a child that _________________________________.

3. Ted makes the assumption that ______________________-.

4. What the daughter sees in the mirror is _____________________.

5. Rose being "without wood" symbolizes ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Lindo was a very strong girl, traveling alone and finding her way in San Francisco. How does Waverly compare to her mother in terms of strength and character?

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

3. Why did An-Mei feel she had no choice but to marry Wu Tsing?

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

5. In this chapter we learn the origin of Bing's name. What is it?

6. 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?

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

8. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."

9. Does Rose grow in this chapter?

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

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