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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose father takes the pipe too often?
(a) Beautiful Moon's.
(b) Lily's.
(c) Elder Sister's.
(d) Snow Flower's.

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

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

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

6. Who is never allowed inside Lily's family home again after talking negatively about Snow Flower's family?
(a) Mr. Lu.
(b) Madame Wang.
(c) Madame Gao.
(d) Mr. Wang.

7. What is Snow Flower's dowry made from?
(a) Lily's old clothes.
(b) New silk cloth.
(c) Fine cotton from her new family.
(d) Her mother's dowry.

8. What qualities do Lily and Snow Flower share?
(a) Same height, beauty, and footbinding date.
(b) Same laugh.
(c) Same nose.
(d) Same last name.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Snow Flower use to teach Lily?

2. What color veil does Lily wear for her wedding?

3. What was Lily's favorite part of the day when she was five?

4. What does Lily confuse Snow Flower's mother with when she first meets her?

5. How does Snow Flower get through the footbinding process?

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