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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sam name his son?
(a) Yuen.
(b) Yon.
(c) Ying.
(d) Yien.

2. Why did Ping not think much of her mother?
(a) She was selfish.
(b) She was not beautiful.
(c) She was a prostitute.
(d) She was never around.

3. What pleased Sam about Hing?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her obedience.
(c) Her hatred of her mother.
(d) Her good grades.

4. What surprised May Ying about her third child?
(a) It was small.
(b) It was a girl.
(c) It was large.
(d) It was deformed.

5. Who smoothed over the blunders made in Sam's business?
(a) Nan.
(b) Sam.
(c) May Ying.
(d) Ping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sam start sending more money to China when he returned to Canada?

2. What were concubines traditionally expected to do in the household?

3. What made May Ying say that Hing should die?

4. Why did Ping marry someone below her status?

5. Where did Sam take May Ying to dinner when they first met?

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