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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Wang tell Snow Flower to do for Beautiful Moon after she has died?
(a) Leave for her own home.
(b) Retrieve her future husband.
(c) Recite poems.
(d) Wrap her in muslin.

2. What does Diviner Hu announce to the family about Lily?
(a) She will make nice quilts.
(b) She should learn to write French poems.
(c) She is too happy.
(d) She is not an ordinary child.

3. What does Snow Flower give Lily when she leaves for her betrothed's house?
(a) Flowers and a card.
(b) Expensive jewelry.
(c) Special message embroidered on a handkerchief.
(d) New diary.

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

5. What does Snow Flower teach Lily through her example when they are at the Temple of Gupo?
(a) How to chew gum and blow bubbles.
(b) Rules of etiquette.
(c) How to tell a joke.
(d) How to run fast.

6. What does Beautiful Moon have an allergic reaction to?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Milk.
(c) Bee sting.
(d) Medicine.

7. How old is Lily when she hears her mother ask Madame Wang why Lily is never invited to Snow Flower's home?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Nine.

8. Where did Lily spend her childhood?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New York.
(c) Puwei.
(d) Beijing.

9. What is Lily's title at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Elder Stateswoman.
(b) One Who Has Not Yet Died.
(c) Widow Lily.
(d) Wise Woman.

10. What does laotong mean?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Old same.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) Ancestors.

11. What did Lily's father receive from the groom's family that made him one of the richest men in the village?
(a) Horse.
(b) Water buffalo.
(c) Two goats.
(d) Money.

12. What is Lady Lu not wearing when Lily meets her for the first time?
(a) The shoes she embroidered for her.
(b) Her special robe.
(c) The necklace Lily gave her.
(d) The silk stockings Lily's mother sent to her.

13. Who wrote "Two nightingales sing in the darkness" in a nu shu letter in "Love"?
(a) Snow Flower.
(b) Elder Sister.
(c) Beautiful Moon.
(d) Madame Wang.

14. What household task was Beautiful Moon good at?
(a) Making thread and yarn.
(b) Caring for the animals.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Hauling water.

15. How old is Elder Sister when Madame Gao comes to visit for the first time?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are Lily and Snow Flower when they have their hair pinned up for the first time?

2. How long does Lily fast before her wedding?

3. What do the eggs and rice represent that Lily's family sends to the grooms' families?

4. Who wrote "The phoenix mates the golden hen, a match made in heaven"?

5. What are the girls fed to soften their bones?

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