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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. What color veil does Lily wear for her wedding?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

2. Who does Lily help with the outdoor chores when she is five?
(a) Elder Sister.
(b) Mother.
(c) Elder Brother.
(d) Cousin.

3. What are "golden lilies"?
(a) Tea cakes.
(b) Small, perfectly bound feet.
(c) Color of embroidery thread.
(d) Special flower.

4. What does Lily make on the morning of her second day at her in-laws' house?
(a) Tea.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Breakfast cakes.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long is the mourning period for Lily's grandmother and sister?

3. What does Snow Flower's father sell to pay his debts?

4. What does Lily's aunt want the girls to know about in the outside world?

5. What are third-day wedding books?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does having a laotong relationship with Snow Flower mean to Lily's family?

3. What story does Aunt tell the girls about nu shu?

4. Describe Snow Flower's personality.

5. Is Lily shocked when she visits Snow Flower's home?

6. What does Lily think of her new husband?

7. Describe the diviner's visit to Lily's home when she was five.

8. What does Madame Wang suggest about Lily having a laotong?

9. What does Lily remember about being five and wading in the river?

10. What is Snow Flower's father's condition?

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