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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. What does Khor draw at the start of Chapter 5?
(a) Different trees.
(b) Lots of different kitchen tools.
(c) Different currencies.
(d) Lots of different characters from earlier in the novel.

2. What does Hao jokingly tell Hels he wants to get for Mei?
(a) A set of her own knives.
(b) A pony.
(c) A bar of chocolate.
(d) A dollhouse.

3. What does Mei begin to feel while she is teaching Bee how to do something in Chapter 3?
(a) Sick.
(b) Very suspicious.
(c) Flustered and attracted to Bee.
(d) Very angry.

4. Why does Mei tell Bee she wants to hold on to the rituals her father does for his family?
(a) She knows it is important to her father.
(b) She thinks it is good luck.
(c) She wants to hold on to the scraps of her family, some of whom she will never meet.
(d) She does not know what else to do.

5. In Chapter 4, who gets angry at Mei for telling the story about Auntie Po while the men are being rescued?
(a) Bee.
(b) Hao.
(c) Sam.
(d) Hels.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what do some of Hels's workers tell him Pauly has been doing behind his back?

2. Who quits from the kitchen in Chapter 3?

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

4. What does Mei ask Bee to help her with in Chapter 3?

5. What is Hao cooking when Hels comes to see him in Chapter 3 to ask him to work at the mill again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hao make special for Hels and give to Bee to take to him in Part IV?

2. What does the crew do when they find Pauly's body?

3. In Part III, why does Mei become flustered when teaching Bee how to chop?

4. In Part IV, what does Pauly use to clear the logjam during the log drive?

5. In Part III, why is Mei angry as the winter passes and she and her father remain separated?

6. What does Auntie Po leave at Pauly's grave?

7. What happens when Neils takes over the camp's kitchen?

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

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

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

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