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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will Lily's family change from a laotong relationship?
(a) No more difficult work.
(b) Better status and more money.
(c) Less respect.
(d) Less status and money.

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

3. Who is Snow Flower marrying?
(a) A butcher.
(b) A paper merchant.
(c) A well-respected landowner.
(d) A farmer.

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

5. What is Snow Flower concerned about when Lily meets her family?
(a) That she will be disappointed.
(b) That Lily will not like her father.
(c) That her parents will not like Lily.
(d) They might not understand the different dialects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Yonggang?

2. What is a palanquin?

3. What does Snow Flower call Madame Wang?

4. Who acted cheerfully in Lily's childhood home?

5. What does Snow Flower do when Beautiful Moon has an allergic reaction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Elder Sister happy after she is married?

2. At the beginning of the novel, what does Lily say interests her now?

3. What does Snow Flower learn from Lily when she stays at Lily's home?

4. Why does Lily feel betrayed by her mother?

5. Describe Snow Flower's personality.

6. What does Madame Wang say about Lily's feet?

7. Does Lily accept Snow Flower's invitation to be her laotong?

8. Why are Lily, Beautiful Moon, and Snow Flower allowed outside during the hot month of the Catching Cool Breezes Festival?

9. What does Madame Wang suggest is the reason Lily is not invited to Snow Flower's home?

10. What does the narrator, Lily, say about what caused every problem in her life?

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