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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 old is Bao-bao when he gets engaged for the third time?
(a) Thirty-eight.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Thirty-one.

2. What is Bao-bao handing out at Auntie Du's funeral?
(a) Song sheets.
(b) List of gift ideas.
(c) Invitations to his wedding.
(d) Spirit money and candy.

3. Whose cooking does Winnie criticize at the funeral?
(a) Lucy's.
(b) Jennifer's.
(c) Mary's.
(d) Helen's.

4. Who takes Tessa and Cleo out of the funeral parlor?
(a) Phil.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Uncle Henry.
(d) Winnie.

5. Who uses an egg mixture to harden mud walls in their living quarters?
(a) Peanut.
(b) Betty.
(c) Old Aunt.
(d) Hulan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Wen Fu and Winnie move to just one month after they are married?

2. In Chapter 1, what does Aunt Helen say she is dying from?

3. Where does Winnie's son Samuel work?

4. What is spirit money?

5. Who delivers Peanut's letters to Wen Fu?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Peanut refuse to see Wen Fu when he visits her home?

3. How does Winnie respond when she sees Lin outside the church one Sunday?

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

5. What happens when Winnie buys a special fish for dinner to announce her news that she's found a job?

6. How does the one dance with Jimmy get Winnie into trouble?

7. When Helen is bragging about her son to Winnie at the beginning of Chapter 4, what is Winnie's reaction?

8. When Winnie confronts Wen Fu about abusing the servant girl, what does Wen Fu do to Yiku?

9. What do the telegrams say that Winnie and Jimmy send to each other after Winnie is released from jail?

10. How does Winnie react when her mother has disappeared and doesn't return to their bedroom?

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