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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of San-pa's home village?
(a) Shelter of Shade.
(b) Shadow of the Mountain.
(c) Dark Shadows.
(d) Shelter Shadow.

2. What is every woman expected to do after she gives birth?
(a) Give sacrifices to please the spirits.
(b) Bathe her baby.
(c) Get up and go back to work.
(d) Clean her whole house to purify it.

3. What is the Akha expression for being pregnant?
(a) Living with child.
(b) One living under another.
(c) Coming to a flower.
(d) Coming to a head.

4. How many days does it take to complete San-pa and Li-yan's wedding ceremony in Spring Well?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 1 cycle.
(d) 3 nights.

5. What tragic event happened in A-ma's tea garden?
(a) All the tea trees died.
(b) First Sister-in-law was cursed.
(c) A-ba's father fell and died.
(d) The spirits haunted A-ma.

6. What is the final step the village must take to be cleansed from the taboo of the twins?
(a) Follow a 12-day ceremonial abstinence.
(b) Abstain from food and water for 24 hours.
(c) Chant every night for a week.
(d) Offer sacrifices for 12 days.

7. Even though San-pa promises he will be a good husband, what does A-ma still think of him?
(a) He is not Akha.
(b) He is not a tea grower.
(c) He is the pancake stealer.
(d) He is lazy.

8. What news does Li-yan get from Teacher Zhang?
(a) The third-level school is closed.
(b) She has passed the gaokao.
(c) She missed the opportunity to take the gaokao.
(d) She has been accepted into third-level school.

9. Why does Li-yan dislike Mr. Huang?
(a) He keeps asking about her special tea trees.
(b) He does not treat his son well.
(c) He is rude to her.
(d) He is disrespectful to A-ba.

10. What is the result of artificially fermenting the tea?
(a) The tea is too bitter.
(b) The tea is perfect.
(c) The tea rots too fast.
(d) The tea is terrible.

11. What does Li-yan eat that keeps her feeling full?
(a) Chili flakes.
(b) Tea leaves.
(c) Rice.
(d) Chicken.

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

13. Where do boys and girls go to be alone during Swing Festival?
(a) The Spirit Gate.
(b) The Tea Grove.
(c) The Flower Room.
(d) The Sacred Well.

14. Why does A-ba not think Li-yan needs more education?
(a) He cannot afford the tuition.
(b) He will not let her leave the village.
(c) She has to teach her siblings.
(d) She has to learn wife and mother responsibilities and pick tea.

15. What is the order of importance for people in the village?
(a) The headman, fathers, mothers, boys, girls.
(b) Father, oldest son, mother, other sons.
(c) The headman, grandfathers, fathers, males of any age, women.
(d) Grandparents, parents, male children, female children.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what foreign country is Huang Benyu?

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

3. What does dreaming of a dog on the roof mean?

4. Why is Teacher Zhang sometimes bitter?

5. What taboo does San-pa commit when leaving the village?

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