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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 Alby say his mother died from?
2. What is Dorothy's middle name?
3. For the performance that Hannington touts as Afong's final performance before she returns to China, what grand cash prize is he offering in a drawing in Chapter 11?
4. Where did Nanchoy grow up in an orphanage?
5. Where does the elevator make a reservation for Dorothy when she leaves with Annabel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Nanchoy hears Afong cry for help when she is having a nightmare in Chapter 11?
2. What does Dorothy remember doing when she was 14 and ran away from a temporary foster home?
3. Where does Lai King's mother take her?
4. What does Afong dream after she receives the letter from home and Nanchoy reads it to her?
5. After the weather improves, what food do Alby and Lai King share?
6. What happens to Mrs. Bidwell?
7. What is Louis's mother like?
8. What does Afong remember and what is she told about the examination by the doctors?
9. What happens after Afong gives Nanchoy's name as the winner at her final performance?
10. Where does Carter Branson take Greta to dinner, and why does she walk home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The storms cause extensive damage to the city. What does Dorothy notice about changes in the city after the stormy? Why does she think there is a "silver lining to disasters, natural or otherwise" (60)?
Essay Topic 2
An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Ford uses in The Many Daughters of Afong Moy? How do these analogies help readers comprehend characters, events or concepts?
Essay Topic 3
Lai King has her freedom curtailed when during the cholera outbreak and on the ship to China. How do her race and then her social class limit her freedom in those circumstances?
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