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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Mei run the kitchen for a night after the last person quits?
(a) Henry.
(b) Martha.
(c) Winnie.
(d) Polly.

2. What does Mei ask Bee to help her with in Chapter 3?
(a) Reading.
(b) Cooking for the Chinese workers still at the camp.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

3. What does the event of the men bringing Mei food to cook make her wonder in Chapter 3?
(a) If the men will eat her type of food.
(b) If she can really cook as well as her father.
(c) If this is what it feels like to be a god.
(d) If her father would be proud of her.

4. Why does Auntie Po say she could not save the person who dies in the logging accident?
(a) He was already dead when he fell.
(b) Mei does not understand the spirit world.
(c) Someone always has to be sacrificed.
(d) If it had not been him, it would have been her father Hao who died.

5. What recipe does Pauly say Neils tried to make that night in Chapter 3 that was especially terrible?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Curry.
(c) Pie.
(d) Schnitzel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what is a cant hook for?

2. What does Hao place in the grave of the logger who dies in the accident?

3. In Chapter 4, who gets angry at Mei for telling the story about Auntie Po while the men are being rescued?

4. When do the loggers find the person who died in the log jam?

5. What does Bee thank Mei for after Bee's loss in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, what does Hels do out of frustration?

2. Why does Bee get really angry at Mei for her Auntie Po stories in Part IV?

3. What demand does Hao make when Hels asks him to come back?

4. Who is the only person killed in the log jam?

5. What does Pauly ask Mei for help with in Part III?

6. In Chapter 4, how do the workers often transport the logs?

7. What is a common and dangerous problem that often happens in transporting logs?

8. What does Hao jokingly ask Hels for as a term of his returning to the camp?

9. Why does Hels finally go and try to make amends with Hao?

10. In Part IV, what event often requires cooks to follow a crew down a river?

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