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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the girls fed to soften their bones?

2. What does Lily find when she enters Snow Flower's house for the first time?

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

4. What is Snow Flower wearing each time she visits Lily during their "daughter days"?

5. What does Lily say her grandmother looked like to her when she was five?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Beautiful Moon gets stung by a bee?

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

5. What does Lily think of her new husband?

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

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

8. In what way does Snow Flower reassure Lily about her impending wedding and marriage?

9. Why does Lily feel betrayed by her mother?

10. Describe the moment when Lily knows that Snow Flower loves her when they are in the women's chamber.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are girls and women restricted in their interaction with the larger world outside their homes? In what way does a "women's chamber" confine them? Provide three examples of how Lily catches glimpses of the world in her "daughter days."

Essay Topic 2

Describe Snow Flower's relationship with her husband. How does he treat her and what excuses does she make for him?

Essay Topic 3

Lily says that all the problems in her life were caused because she was looking for love. Discuss the problems that Lily created because of her need for love.

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