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

2. Who does Lily say is the most important person she must build a relationship with in her married life?
(a) Mother-in-law.
(b) Husband.
(c) Father-in-law.
(d) Husband's sister.

3. Who transports notes between Lily and Snow Flower after their sons are born?
(a) Madame Wang.
(b) Snow Flower's mother.
(c) Madame Lu.
(d) Yonggang.

4. Who will become Madame Lu after Lily dies?
(a) Lily's niece.
(b) Lily's daughter-in-law.
(c) Peony.
(d) Lily's daughter.

5. What happens to the women whose bound feet break as they walk up the mountain?
(a) They get a ride in a cart.
(b) They are carried up the mountain in a stretcher.
(c) They must be brought back down the mountain.
(d) They are left to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who watches Lily's children while she takes care of her sick mother- in-law?

2. What does Lotus deliver to Lily from Snow Flower during the Midi-Autumn Festival?

3. What does Snow Flower pull out from under her tunic while she and Lily stand at the cliff's edge after her son has died?

4. Why do the men on the mountain ask their wives to go back down the mountain for supplies?

5. Who does Lily go in search of while in the mountains?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why Lily lets her son leave the upstairs chamber.

2. Is Lily glad that she is visiting Snow Flower's home?

3. What does Lily do to shield her children from the typhoid epidemic?

4. Describe Snow Flower's second son.

5. What helped give the fleeing villagers courage as they sat in the bowl of the mountain?

6. Describe Snow Flower and Lily's complaints about their mothers-in-law.

7. What do the sworn sisters tell Lily about Snow Flower?

8. What does Lily do for Snow Flower's granddaughter, Peony?

9. Describe Lily's reunion with her husband after she comes down from the mountain.

10. Describe Lily's son.

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