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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 does Lily compare Snow Flower to when she stays with her family and amuses them in "Love"?

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

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

4. What did Yuxiu invent?

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

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. Is Lily worried about the note Snow Flower sends with the fan when Lily leaves her home for her wedding?

3. What does Lily think of her new husband?

4. Describe Lily's childhood home.

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

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

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

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

9. Is Elder Sister happy after she is married?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe one setting of the novel and its importance in a character's life. How does this setting influence or change this character? Use specific details of setting to support your point.

Essay Topic 2

What is the contract that Lily and Snow Flower write? How do they uphold this contract through the years? What makes Lily think that Snow Flower has broken it?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the idyllic scene before Beautiful Moon dies. What does Lily say is the reason that Beautiful Moon dies? How does her death affect Lily?

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