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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the box that Wen Fu signs for at the telegraph office?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Apples.
(d) Dried cakes of donkey dung.

2. What is the secret code Jimmy says Winnie should use when she calls to indicate she's ready to run away from Wen Fu?
(a) "Open the door, you can already see the mountain."
(b) "The lake is frozen."
(c) "Shut the window, don't let the air in."
(d) "Blue skies smile on us."

3. Where do Helen and Winnie go shopping at the end of the novel?
(a) Sam Fook Trading Company.
(b) The chinese dress shop.
(c) The cookie factory.
(d) Mr. Wong's tea shop.

4. On the day Winnie runs away, what does she tell her mother-in-law about Old Aunt?
(a) She doesn't want any visitors.
(b) She is asking about Peanut.
(c) She is in good spirits.
(d) Her health is not so good and she needs to visit her.

5. Who does Winnie see again at a book shop in Shanghai after the war is over?
(a) Peanut.
(b) Jiaguo.
(c) Old Aunt.
(d) Jimmy Louie.

6. What wrapping paper does Winnie use to wrap Bao-bao and Mimi's wedding gift?
(a) Brown wrapping paper.
(b) Chinese paper.
(c) Red Christmas paper.
(d) Silver paper.

7. Who is Kuang An?
(a) Hulan's second husband.
(b) Winnie's lawyer.
(c) The guard.
(d) Jimmy's friend.

8. What color is the cloth that Winnie gives to Hulan after she convinces Jiaguo not to charge Wen Fu for driving the jeep without permission?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Peach-colored.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

9. Who is pregnant and comes to visit Winnie in jail?
(a) Hulan.
(b) Peanut.
(c) Joy.
(d) Min.

10. When Winnie tells her father that she must leave her marriage, what does he give her?
(a) Paper money.
(b) Her mother's jewelry.
(c) Three gold ingots.
(d) The antique scroll.

11. Who does Jimmy Louie ask to dance?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Donna.
(c) Winnie.
(d) Helen.

12. When Hulan receives a letter from Jiaguo while she's living in Kunming, who reads it to her?
(a) Aunt Du.
(b) Mr. Ma.
(c) Wen Fu.
(d) Winnie.

13. Where do Winnie and Jimmy send Danru to keep him safe from Wen Fu?
(a) To Peanut's rooming house.
(b) To Hulan and Jiaguo's home in the north.
(c) To Old Aunt.
(d) To a small cottage in the countryside.

14. Who thinks Old Aunt has a sickness to match every herb?
(a) Jiaguo.
(b) Wen Fu's mother.
(c) Winnie's father.
(d) Hulan.

15. What job does Little Yu's mother have at the rooming house?
(a) Painter.
(b) Cook.
(c) Reads aloud to the women
(d) Draws pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen tell Pearl about her brain tumor?

2. What does Winnie give Peanut when she visits her at the rooming house in Shanghai?

3. Why do the women at Peanut's rooming house like bitter melon?

4. Who tells Winnie that Min is a sister of a pilot friend who has nowhere to stay?

5. Who is Min?

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