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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - A Beautiful Flower Calls 1994-1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does A-ma call her daughter?
(a) Girl.
(b) No name.
(c) Only Sister.
(d) Li-yan.

2. Li-yan's mother is an important woman in the village because she can do what?
(a) Interpret dreams.
(b) Tell the best stories.
(c) Make the best tea.
(d) Speak several languages.

3. What does Li-yan's father learn when they arrive at the tea collection center?
(a) They have the wrong type of tea.
(b) The tea collection center is closed and they have to return the next day.
(c) They are too late and receive only half the regular price for their tea.
(d) They went to the tea collection center on the wrong day.

4. What skill does Li-yan struggle to learn?
(a) Planting tea.
(b) Needlework.
(c) Making sticky rice.
(d) Weaving mats.

5. What two gifts does A-ma give her granddaughter?
(a) A name and a tea cake.
(b) A tea cake and a knife.
(c) A cap and a charm.
(d) A name and a cap.

Short Answer Questions

1. After their marriage, what does San-pa call Li-yan?

2. What does Li-yan do hoping to change her life?

3. What is the one good omen when Deh-ja goes into labor?

4. What does Li-yan eat that keeps her feeling full?

5. When Li-yan finds San-pa sleeping in the street at Menghai, what does she realize he has taken?

(see the answer key)

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