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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wang Lung begin referring to his daughter as in Chapter 9?
(a) Pear Blossom.
(b) Lotus.
(c) Poor fool.
(d) Cuckoo.

2. Who washes O-lan's body for burial after her death?
(a) Wang Lung's daughter-in-law.
(b) Wang Lung's eldest daughter.
(c) Wang Lung's aunt.
(d) Wang Lung's uncle.

3. What is described as the color of mourning that Wang Lung and his family wears after O-lan's death?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

4. Who kills Wang Lung's ox in Chapter 8?
(a) O-lan.
(b) Wang Lung's aunt.
(c) Lotus.
(d) Wang Lung's uncle.

5. How many seed beans came up for Wang Lung's uncle of the twenty that he planted this year in Chapter 7?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. When O-lan summons Cuckoo to her death bed in Chapter 26, she tells her that Cuckoo is what?

2. How many children does Wang Lung's uncle have in Chapter 7?

3. What drastic act does Wang Lung do in order to impress Lotus in Chapter 19?

4. What presumably happens to Wang Lung's daughter that is born in Chapter 9?

5. Why does Wang Lung's eldest son say he hates his cousin in Chapter 27?

(see the answer key)

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