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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do Snow Flower and Lily help up the steep mountain when they have to flee the town?
(a) Snow Flower's mother-in-law.
(b) A pregnant woman.
(c) A elderly neighbor.
(d) Snow Flower's baby.

3. Who are Taipings?
(a) Emperor's assistants.
(b) Rebels.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Special dog.

4. Why does Snow Flower become a vegetarian?
(a) Meat makes her feel too heavy.
(b) Meat is kept for the men in the family.
(c) Vegtables are what they have to eat.
(d) Because she had to help with pig slaughtering.

5. What is one of the things that Lily's mother tells her not to do while she is pregnant with her first child?
(a) Don't eat rice.
(b) Don't sit for too long.
(c) Don't drink tea.
(d) Don't climb hills.

6. Who watches Lily's children while she takes care of her sick mother- in-law?
(a) Lady Wu.
(b) Yonggang.
(c) Second Sister-in-law.
(d) Uncle Lu.

7. What does Lily see outside the palanquin window as she travels between her natal and husband's home in "Temple of Gupo"?
(a) Fields of sunflowers.
(b) A lake.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Rice fields and taro crop.

8. What does Lily burn from the flame of an oil lamp?
(a) Her own letter.
(b) Nu shu writing from her mother-in-law.
(c) Snow Flower's letter.
(d) Her collection of poetry.

9. What does Lotus deliver to Lily from Snow Flower during the Midi-Autumn Festival?
(a) Cloth.
(b) Fan.
(c) Tea cakes.
(d) Book.

10. Where do Lily and Snow Flower stay as they travel home after praying for the birth of healthy sons at the Temple of Gupo?
(a) Snow Flower's home.
(b) Madame Wang's home.
(c) Lily's home.
(d) Inn.

11. 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 has too much to do to take care of him.
(c) She is glad to have him out of the women's chamber.
(d) He is not her favorite child.

12. How does Spring Moon kill herself on her wedding night?
(a) Drowns.
(b) Allergic reaction to seafood.
(c) Drinks poison.
(d) Throws herself down a well.

13. Why does Lily sweep three times a day in her sleeping chamber?
(a) To frighten away ghosts hunting for prey.
(b) There are too many bugs.
(c) She is worried about dirt.
(d) She has nothing else to do.

14. How old is Snow Flower's first born son when they are in the mountains?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eleven.

15. How old is Lily when she has her first child?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twenty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will become Madame Lu after Lily dies?

2. What would Snow Flower's husband do if Snow Flower went to live with Lily?

3. What is Master Lu's opinion of Snow Flower?

4. What does Lily realize the purpose of nu shu is in "Sons"?

5. How does Lily learn that her husband has been searching for her?

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