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

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

3. What does Bee say she knows Mei is using the Auntie Po stories to do?
(a) Sharpen her writing skills.
(b) Start a union.
(c) Express her own emotions.
(d) Communicate with Hao.

4. Who jumps in the water to help in Chapter 4, even though this person cannot swim?
(a) Hao.
(b) Sam.
(c) Hels.
(d) Henry.

5. 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) Someone always has to be sacrificed.
(c) Mei does not understand the spirit world.
(d) If it had not been him, it would have been her father Hao who died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pauly tell Mei has happened to the crew since Hao left?

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

3. What does Hao ask Hels to pay him in Chapter 3?

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

5. Who are the best and bravest workers in the sawmill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What tradition does Hao enact when they bury Pauly?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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