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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Regret.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lily's mother-in-law teach her about a wife's duty to obey?
(a) Follow your husband's example.
(b) Speak quietly and serve well.
(c) Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
(d) Obey at all costs.

2. What does Lily teach Snow Flower's eldest son in the mountains?
(a) How to cook.
(b) Geography.
(c) How to write characters.
(d) The lessons she overheard her own son learn from the tutor.

3. Who are "little daughters-in-law"?
(a) Baby girls.
(b) Emperor's daughters by marriage.
(c) Girls who marry well.
(d) Poor girls whose feet are not bound.

4. What does Lily teach Snow Flower when she is visiting Lily's home in "Love"?
(a) How to behave politely.
(b) How to embroider.
(c) How to do household chores.
(d) How to read.

5. Why does Lily approve her husband's decision to hire a tutor for their son?
(a) She would like him to take the imperial exams.
(b) She is glad to have him out of the women's chamber.
(c) She has too much to do to take care of him.
(d) He is not her favorite child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow Flower teach Lily through her example when they are at the Temple of Gupo?

2. What does Lily say about Snow Flower's voice when she chants the Yao story?

3. How did Snow Flower's father-in-law die?

4. What does Lily paint on the fan after she has read third-day books for Snow Flower?

5. Where does Lily go at the beginning of "Into the Mountains"?

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