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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 97 - 108 and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Leigh compare the smoke that emerges from the strange incense?
(a) Cotton candy.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Toffee.
(d) Taffy.

2. Which of the following examples of “silly childhood rhyme” does Leigh recall when walking out of Dorothy’s funeral (14)?
(a) “Oh my, what a sigh!”
(b) “I see London, I see France, I see someone’s underpants!”
(c) “Don’t step on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back.”
(d) “Little Leigh, full of glee!”

3. The comment that “the stain on the bedroom floor is as permanent as the sky” (1) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

4. As which of the following colors does Leigh describe her steps?
(a) Aquamarine.
(b) Fulminous.
(c) Cobalt blue.
(d) Ultramarine.

5. At which of the following locations are Dorothy’s ashes spread?
(a) Fairbridge.
(b) Hsinchu.
(c) Jiufen.
(d) Danshui.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following colors does Leigh claim to see in the darkness?

2. Which of the following do the girls wear in the picture Leigh finds among the old cardboard boxes?

3. As which of the following does Leigh gloss “wo” in the novel?

4. Which of the following “singsong rhymes” does Leigh recall (8)?

5. With which of the following colors does Leigh associate the feeling of the hospital waiting room?

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