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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 family does Madame Wang arrange for Lily to be married into?
(a) Hun family.
(b) Lu family.
(c) Gao family.
(d) Wang family.

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

3. What do the eggs and rice represent that Lily's family sends to the grooms' families?
(a) Success.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Fertility.

4. Who wrote "Two nightingales sing in the darkness" in a nu shu letter in "Love"?
(a) Beautiful Moon.
(b) Elder Sister.
(c) Madame Wang.
(d) Snow Flower.

5. Who is Snow Flower?
(a) Lily's cousin.
(b) Lily's mother's cousin.
(c) Lily's laotong.
(d) Baba's niece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow Flower ask Madame Wang to give Lily?

2. What animal spirit do Lily and Snow Flower share?

3. What occupation did Snow Flower's great-grandfather have?

4. What is the upstairs room in Lily's childhood home used for?

5. How does Lily's mother treat her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lily learn when her lessons begin in the women's chambers?

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

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

4. What is the reason Lily and Snow Flower are alone in the women's chamber during the Catching Cool Breezes Festival?

5. Why does Lily feel betrayed by her mother?

6. What happens when Lily's mother tries to bind Third Sister's feet?

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

8. How does Lily help Snow Flower as she prepares to marry?

9. What does Lily learn about when she goes with Snow Flower and Madame Wang to the fair at the Temple of Gupo?

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

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