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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the older Chinese orphan girls spend their time at the convent?
(a) They study mathematics and history.
(b) They do embroidery and sewing.
(c) They put on elaborate plays.
(d) They play card games.

2. What is Kitty's last request of Walter?
(a) She asks for forgiveness.
(b) She asks him to give her a kiss.
(c) She asks him to forgive himself.
(d) She asks him to tell her he loves her.

3. What do the Nuns do with infants as soon as they come into the convent?
(a) Feed them.
(b) Sing to them.
(c) Innocluate them against cholera.
(d) Baptize them.

4. How does Kitty find the streets of Mei-tan-fu on her way to the convent?
(a) The streets are very clean and well-kept.
(b) Everyone on the streets seems extremely curious of her.
(c) They are crowded with throngs of people.
(d) They are extremely dirty, with a horrible stench.

5. When Walter asks Kitty if the baby is his, what is her response?
(a) She refuses to answer.
(b) She tells him it is his.
(c) She tells him it is Charlie's.
(d) She doesn't know.

6. What happened to the Missionary who was the previous occupant of the bungalow?
(a) He was given another post in a neighboring village.
(b) He caught cholera and returned to England for treatment.
(c) He feel in love with a Chinese woman and left the province with her.
(d) He died.

7. What was Mother Superior's first name before she became a nun?
(a) Kitty doesn't know.
(b) Odette.
(c) Marie.
(d) Nicole.

8. Why does Kitty attend the daily services in the chapel with the other nuns and children?
(a) She finds it restful.
(b) She is worried about offending Mother Superior by not attending.
(c) Walter has pressured her to attend them.
(d) Mother Superior has asked her to attend them.

9. What abruptly awakens Kitty during her first night in Mei-tan-fu?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) The crow of a bird.
(c) The crying of a servant.
(d) Walter rousing her.

10. When Kitty discovers she is pregnant, what is her immediate reaction?
(a) She is shocked.
(b) She is afraid.
(c) She is elated.
(d) She is angry.

11. When Kitty finds herself suffering nausea and vomits, what causes her to faint?
(a) One of the children vomits as well, and she faints when she sees it.
(b) She is afraid she has cholera.
(c) She doesn't faint, but quickly regains her composure.
(d) She receives some bad news about Walter.

12. How does Mother Superior treat Kitty since the discovery of her pregnancy?
(a) There is no change in her manner towards Kitty.
(b) She is more kind and friendly with her.
(c) She becomes more easily frustrated and mean to Kitty.
(d) She is more standoffish to Kitty.

13. What French delicacy does Mother Superior serve Kitty during tea?
(a) French bread called baquettes.
(b) French cakes called Madeleines.
(c) A type of French goat cheese.
(d) French crepes.

14. Where do Waddington and Kitty make an excursion to on a Sunday in Chapter 53?
(a) A Buddhist monastery.
(b) A beautiful waterful.
(c) A neighboring city.
(d) To visit a new British family from Hong Kong.

15. How does the Chinese surgeon think that Walter contracted cholera?
(a) From drinking unsanitary water.
(b) From spending so much time with the sick.
(c) From experimenting on himself.
(d) From eating salad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What startles Kitty when she accompanies Waddington on her first walk outside of the bungalow?

2. What does Mother Superior describe as her last sight of France?

3. What gift does the Manchu mistress give to Kitty?

4. What great noise brings Mother Superior to the room when Kitty is watching the children in Chapter 52?

5. Why don't the nuns allow Kitty to see inside the infirmary?

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