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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 characters from earlier in the novel.
(c) Lots of different kitchen tools.
(d) Different currencies.

2. Where does Hao tell Hels he was working when he cooked a big Chinese New Year's feast every year?
(a) The lamp factory.
(b) The steelyards.
(c) The railroads.
(d) The bridge works.

3. In Mei's telling of the rescue to Henry in Chapter 4, who helps move the biggest logs to help save the loggers?
(a) Martha.
(b) Wen.
(c) Hao.
(d) Pei Pei.

4. What does Bee give to Mei to help her feel better in Chapter 3?
(a) A new dress.
(b) A pine cone doll.
(c) A new saw.
(d) A new hair tie.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mei say the sawmill once told Auntie Po and her men after they had delivered their entire season's load of wood?

2. Why is Mei angry as the winter passes in Chapter 3?

3. What does Hao say when Mei asks him if he actually sees Auntie Po, too?

4. In Chapter 4, who explicitly tells Mei he or she can see Auntie Po for the first time, rescuing men from the river?

5. What is special about the sandwich Hao makes for Hels in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What form does Auntie Po take in Henry's imagination after the disaster with the log jam in Part IV?

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

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

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

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

9. In Part III, what story about Auntie Po does Mei tell Bee and Polly?

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

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