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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 21-41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Lao Hong?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

2. What has Bao taken upon herself to do?
(a) Find a husband for her younger sister.
(b) Find a wife for Chen.
(c) Send Chen to Hunan.
(d) Care for her father and brothers.

3. About what is Chen thinking as he returns to his home?
(a) Books and poetry.
(b) Staying afloat on the water.
(c) The test coming up next December.
(d) He is sleeping.

4. How has Lao Chen's father lost his money?
(a) He never had much money.
(b) Bad crops several years in a row.
(c) Drinking and gambling.
(d) His second wife's family.

5. Who are Fire Star and Dragon Legs?
(a) Two cats that live with Lao Hong.
(b) It is not mentioned who they are.
(c) Characters in a book Lao Hong has read 5 times.
(d) Lao Hong's crickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Lao Hong give some of his prize money to his father?

2. For what is Lao Hong known?

3. Who is the third son in the family?

4. To what does the story flashback?

5. Where do Chen and Hong tell Lao Lu they intend to go?

(see the answer key)

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