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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one staple Mei always makes for the Chinese workers when she cooks for them?

3. What does one worker throw at Hels in complaint in Chapter 3?

4. What does Auntie Po leave on the grave of the logger who dies?

5. What does Hao say he wants to do from now on at the sawmill if he comes back to cook there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hao say when Hels comes to beg him to come back?

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

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

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

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

6. In Part IV, what surprises Mei about Hao's attitude towards her Auntie Po stories?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Khor describe Mei's struggle with her emerging feelings of attraction towards Bee, her best friend? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Khor communicate the significance of some of the funeral ceremonies and rituals that the Chinese characters share to honor Pauly? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Khor chooses to include large illustrations of the tools the loggers use at the beginning of several chapters, and what do these tools symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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