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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 O-lan do with the New Year's cakes she makes in Chapter 5?
(a) She feeds them to the poor.
(b) She eats them all.
(c) She gives them to Old Mistress Hwang as a gift.
(d) She gives them to her family.

2. Who assists O-lan in childbirth in Chapter 3?
(a) Her mother.
(b) No one.
(c) Locus.
(d) Old Mistress Wang.

3. How much money does Wang Lung pay for the cost of transporting his family to the city in the south in Chapter 11?
(a) Less than 2 silver coins.
(b) About 20 silver coins.
(c) 2 gold coins.
(d) 5 silver coins.

4. In O-lan's last words before dying, she says, "Beauty will not" do what?
(a) "Follow one across the bridge."
(b) "Bring prosperity."
(c) "Bear a man sons."
(d) "Live forever."

5. Wang Lung says in Chapter 20, "When a man's house is full of wild dogs he must" do what?
(a) "Seek peace elsewhere."
(b) "Protect himself."
(c) "Kill them."
(d) "Throw bones in their direction."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "great red girl" that Lotus describes at the tea shop in Chapter 23?

2. What does Wang Lung begin referring to his daughter as in Chapter 9?

3. What does O-lan refuse to leave out for Cuckoo in the mornings in Chapter 21?

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

5. What are the New Year's cakes called that O-lan makes in Chapter 5?

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