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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. Who comes to Lily's door asking her to go to Snow Flower because she is dying?

2. How does Lily describe Snow Flower's eldest child while they are on the mountain?

3. What would Snow Flower's husband do if Snow Flower went to live with Lily?

4. What did Lily's mother-in-law teach her about a wife's duty to obey?

5. What does Snow Flower sing at her cousin's Sitting and Singing phase that Lily attends and hears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lily's husband do when the battles came to Tongkou?

2. How does Lily try to help Snow Flower on her deathbed?

3. How does Lily respond when she hears Snow Flower sing the Letter of Vituperation?

4. Is Lily supportive of her husband's plan to travel to Guilin and buy salt to sell back in Tongkou?

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

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

7. In what way does Snow Flower's nu shu letter express her true thoughts to Lily after the birth of her son?

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

9. Why does Lily want to wait for her husband when the Taipings arrive in Snow Flower's village?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the challenges of the refugees as they climb the mountain. What does Lily see and hear that gives you a sense of her experience? In what way is the Butcher both a savior and a destroyer in this location?

Essay Topic 3

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."

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