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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 do the nuns give Chinese parents in exchange for babies they would have otherwise abandoned?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A supply of fruit and vegetables.
(c) Medicine to ward against cholera.
(d) A small amount of cash.

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

3. Who comes to tell Kitty that Walter has fallen ill?
(a) Mother Superior.
(b) Waddington.
(c) Colonel Yu.
(d) An amah.

4. How many people die each day in Mei-tan-fu from the cholera?
(a) 76.
(b) 115.
(c) 25.
(d) 100.

5. When Kitty asks Walter if he wanted her to die from cholera in Chapter 57, what is his response?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) At first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit of the Fanes does Waddington find surprising and dangerous?

2. How does the Chinese surgeon think that Walter contracted cholera?

3. What abruptly awakens Kitty during her first night in Mei-tan-fu?

4. Who is the first person Kitty meets when she reaches her new home in Mei-tan-fu?

5. What job is Kitty given at the convent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Waddington describe Walter?

2. How does Kitty describe Waddington's Manchu mistress?

3. How does Waddington describe Charlie Townsend?

4. How does Kitty describe her first impression of Waddington?

5. How does Kitty describe the chapel at the convent?

6. How does Waddington try and comfort Kitty about Walter's death?

7. Why doesn't Kitty lie to Walter when he asks her if he is the father of the baby?

8. When Kitty asks Waddington about immortality, what is his response?

9. What are Kitty's initial feelings towards the young orphan children and do her feelings change over time?

10. How does Kitty regard her indiscretion with Townsend?

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