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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 often pay her gambling debts?
(a) She would work it off.
(b) She traded furniture and other items.
(c) She traded sexual favors.
(d) Other men paid them for her.

2. How did May Ying travel to meet the man who bought her?
(a) She took a ship.
(b) She joined a wagon team.
(c) All of the above.
(d) She rode a plane.

3. How long was May Ying in Canada before her third child was born?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 3 days.

4. Why did May Ying always send money to her husband when he asked for it?
(a) So he would stay in China.
(b) So she could support him.
(c) So she would mean more to him than Huangbo.
(d) So she could be with him sooner.

5. What was May Ying sold as?
(a) A maid.
(b) A concubine.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A laborer.

6. What changed Hing's opinion of her father?
(a) His letters.
(b) Her mother's words about him.
(c) Her teacher's statements about him.
(d) His phone calls.

7. What did Sam name May Ying's third child?
(a) Ling.
(b) Sing.
(c) Hing.
(d) Jing.

8. What kind of medicine did Sam get large a stockpile of?
(a) Ibuprofen.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Opium.

9. Where did Sam take May Ying to dinner when they first met?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A tea house.
(c) A hostel.
(d) His house.

10. Why did May Ying want her son to be born in Canada?
(a) So he could be born in a good hospital.
(b) So he could be with his grandparents.
(c) So he could have citizenship there.
(d) So he could have an inheritance.

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

12. What grade did Hing repeat?
(a) 1st.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 4th.

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

14. Who did Sam name May Ying's first child after?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His first wife.

15. What kind of name was Hing told to choose?
(a) An English name.
(b) An American name.
(c) A Canadian name.
(d) A pronouncable name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chinese people think of women's wages?

2. How did May Ying get the money her husband needed when he asked?

3. What disease was Sam trying to prepare for?

4. What was the Blue Funnel?

5. How did Sam feel about his son's deformity?

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