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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. What does Wen Fu bring Peanut home in?
(a) A car.
(b) A wheelbarrow.
(c) Horse and carriage.
(d) Bicycle.

2. Who steals a pedicab after the Japanese drop leaflets in the market of Nanking?
(a) Wen Fu.
(b) Jiaguo.
(c) Hulan.
(d) Winnie.

3. What does Winnie think of Helen?
(a) She loves spending time with her.
(b) She is smart.
(c) She doesn't enjoy her company, opinions, or character.
(d) She is pretty.

4. What disease does Pearl have?
(a) Multiple Sclerosis.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart disease.

5. What is spirit money?
(a) Real money.
(b) Money for giving to the church.
(c) Play money the dead use to bribe their way into heaven.
(d) Money that pays for the wreaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hulan break in Chapter 12?

2. Who is Phil?

3. Who is videotaping Auntie Du's funeral?

4. Where does Winnie sleep when she stays at her father's house before her wedding?

5. How much money does Peanut say she expects to receive from her future family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Wen Fu's cruelty toward the man and his pig.

2. How is Winnie's father affected by the war?

3. What does the fortune teller say she can do to change Winnie's bad luck?

4. What is Wen Fu's reaction as they travel along the tops of the mountains, above the clouds?

5. How does having multiple sclerosis affect Pearl's daily life?

6. What surprises Pearl at Auntie Du's funeral?

7. What is the reason Auntie Du bought three pounds of tea?

8. Why does Pearl feel silly about participating in the Buddhist ritual of chanting around Auntie Du's casket?

9. What happens when Pearl realizes that Wen Fu is her biological father?

10. Why does Pearl no longer like her cousin Mary?

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