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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did May Ying treat her aches?
(a) Distractions.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Narcotics.
(d) Herbal remedies.

2. How did May Ying feel when she may Huangbo cry?
(a) Sorry.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Empathetic.
(d) Proud.

3. What was the name of Hing's sister?
(a) Zing.
(b) Ping.
(c) Ying.
(d) Ting.

4. How did May Ying get the money her husband needed when he asked?
(a) All of these.
(b) Borrowed money.
(c) Sold items.
(d) Worked longer shifts.

5. How did many people describe Hing when May Ying would take her out?
(a) Strange looking.
(b) Well behaved.
(c) Lovely.
(d) Upsetting.

6. Who helped May Ying treat her aches?
(a) Ping.
(b) Sam.
(c) Huangbo.
(d) Hing.

7. What were concubines traditionally expected to do in the household?
(a) The house work.
(b) The gardening.
(c) The cooking.
(d) The cleaning.

8. What did Ping say about Huangbo?
(a) She was the better of her father's wives.
(b) She was weak.
(c) She was simple minded.
(d) She was honorable but quiet.

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

10. What was Mon Keong?
(a) A ship.
(b) A school.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A store.

11. What disease was Sam trying to prepare for?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Diptheria.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Malaria.

12. How did Sam introduce the owner of the Peking House to May Ying?
(a) His family.
(b) A cruel man.
(c) His salvation.
(d) Her new boss.

13. Who traveled with May Ying when she was sold to a man?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) The captain.
(c) Other slaves.
(d) Nobody.

14. Who made Hing stay in contact with her sisters?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

15. What changed Hing's opinion of her mother
(a) Huangbo's word's about her.
(b) Her letters.
(c) Her teacher's statements about her.
(d) Her phone calls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did May Ying refuse to do what concubines were expected to do?

2. How did May Ying hope to be taken care of in her old age?

3. What caused Sam to occasionally stop working in China after he left Hing?

4. What did Sam want others in China to think of him after leaving Hing?

5. Who smoothed over the blunders made in Sam's business?

(see the answer keys)

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