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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. How did Lena's eating problem manifest itself?
(a) She became anorexic
(b) Her skin broke out like leprosy
(c) Her mother's sack lunches made her sick
(d) Her hatred consumed her

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

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

4. An-Mei's mother told her a story of a tear-eating __________________.
(a) Popo
(b) Little pond
(c) Turtle
(d) Bird of joy

5. Waverly gives up chess for good because she ________________________________-.
(a) Is tired of dealing with her mother
(b) Lost track of her strategy
(c) Begins to lose tournaments
(d) No longer believes she has a gift

Short Answer Questions

1. The pastor, Wing, was a __________________________-.

2. An-Mei's mother was not always a fourth wife, but was once a _______________________.

3. Ying-Ying's name means _____________________.

4. Why will a second mirror help the daughter?

5. Three days of sleeping may have given Rose _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of a mother trying to impose her own values on her daughter's life?

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

3. What is the lesson the woman is trying to impart, and the question she is wanting to have answered?

4. Does Ying-Ying love her husband, Saint?

5. "Peach blossom luck" is a feng shui belief that certain objects and angles in a room will influence the happiness and longevity of a marriage. Discuss why or why not this might be possible.

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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