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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Lus send to Lily's family on the second day of her marriage?
(a) Goat.
(b) Card.
(c) Pork and sweet cakes.
(d) Tea.

2. What do Lily and Snow Flower share when they are young that convinces Lily that Snow Flower loves her?
(a) Stories.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Face washing water.
(d) Food.

3. What does Third Sister die from?
(a) Blood poisoning.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Flu.

4. Why does Madame Wang take Lily and Snow Flower to the fair at the Temple of Gupo?
(a) To play with other girls their age.
(b) To get some outdoor exercise.
(c) To write their contracts.
(d) To go to a river for a picnic.

5. What animal spirit do Lily and Snow Flower share?
(a) Pig.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Horse.
(d) Cow.

6. Who is Lily?
(a) Mother to Snow Flower.
(b) Matchmaker.
(c) Servant.
(d) Narrator.

7. What pattern is embroidered on Lily's green silk jacket that she wears to visit Snow Flower in "Truth"?
(a) Birds.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Vines.
(d) Bamboo.

8. Who teaches Lily nu shu?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Elder Sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Madame Wang.

9. What occupation did Snow Flower's great-grandfather have?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Musician.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Landowner.

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

11. What does Snow Flower do when Beautiful Moon has an allergic reaction?
(a) Tries to give her CPR.
(b) Faints.
(c) Screams.
(d) Goes to get Uncle and Baba.

12. How old are Lily and Snow Flower when they have their hair pinned up for the first time?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Fifteen.

13. What does Snow Flower's father sell to pay his debts?
(a) Land.
(b) Oldest son.
(c) Summer house.
(d) Boat.

14. What is Snow Flower's father addicted to?
(a) Opium.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Tobacco.

15. Who does Snow Flower say saved her family?
(a) Madame Wang.
(b) Lily's mother.
(c) Sun Flower's Elder Sister.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily compare herself and Snow Flower with in "The Fan"?

2. How will Lily's family change from a laotong relationship?

3. How old is Lily when she hears her mother ask Madame Wang why Lily is never invited to Snow Flower's home?

4. What does Madame Wang tell Snow Flower to do for Beautiful Moon after she has died?

5. Where did Lily spend her childhood?

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