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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the tea master who came into the room during Li-yan's interview?
(a) Tea Master Sun.
(b) Tea Master Zhang.
(c) Tea Master Shen.
(d) Tea Master Mao.

2. What is Jin's business?
(a) Collecting garbage.
(b) Recycling aluminum cans.
(c) Recycling paper into boxes.
(d) Tea broker.

3. What does Ci-teh plan to plant in the villages instead of tea?
(a) Coffee and rubber.
(b) Rubber and hemp.
(c) Poppies and rubber.
(d) Coffee and cocoa.

4. Li-yan is surprised by the changes to what village?
(a) Menghai.
(b) Spring Well.
(c) Singapore.
(d) Bamboo Forest.

5. When the tea market falls apart, where does Li-yan go?
(a) To Singapore.
(b) to Tea Master Sun.
(c) To her village.
(d) To Menghai.

6. Before the tea trade, Yunnan were called tu, which meant backward. After Pu'er tea rose in value, what did tu mean?
(a) It meant source of pure tea.
(b) It referred to the quality of the tea.
(c) It represented new wealth.
(d) It meant untouched by the evils of civilization.

7. What does Ci-teh do when the tea prices crash?
(a) She goes back to Spring Well.
(b) She sells Li-yan's tea at a discount.
(c) She calls Li-yan.
(d) She throws away the tea.

8. Where does A-ma want Li-yan and Jin to go on their honeymoon?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) America.
(c) Singapore.
(d) Yunnan.

9. Where does Li-yan go each day after work?
(a) The Villas at the Park.
(b) The Martyrs' Memorial Garden.
(c) The Revolution Memorial.
(d) Blossom Park.

10. When Mrs. Chang asks Li-yan to meet her son, what is Li-yan's response?
(a) I cannot get married for three years.
(b) I do not want to get married again.
(c) I have to run my teashop.
(d) I am already married.

11. What modern convenience did Li-yan find so fascinating it was almost taken away from her?
(a) Television.
(b) The electric light.
(c) The toaster.
(d) A shower.

12. Why do Chinese parents not want to adopt children from the Social Welfare Institute?
(a) They have special needs and are considered the rubbish of society.
(b) They have terminal diseases.
(c) They are from the poor mountain tribes.
(d) They are considered human rejects.

13. How does Tea Master Sun determine his tea has brewed 15 seconds?
(a) He takes fifteen breaths.
(b) By his heartbeats.
(c) He counts to fifteen slowly.
(d) He taps his foot quietly.

14. According to Akha Law, why does Li-yan have to confront Ci-teh before the people in the village?
(a) Their actions have tipped the forest and everyone out of balance.
(b) Everyone wants to know what is going on.
(c) Their argument has angered the spirits.
(d) The Akha have no secrets.

15. What does Mrs. Chang do for a living?
(a) Teaches philosophy.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Works in a hotel.
(d) English teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ci-teh say when Li-yan enter her house in Part IV?

2. Why does Tea Master Sun pour water over the tea leaves and then pour the water out?

3. While Li-yan is on her honeymoon, who is running her tea shop?

4. What does the nima rub on Li-yan and Ci-teh's foreheads before he starts his ceremony?

5. When Mr. Huang opens one of the special tea cakes made from Li-yan's special trees, what does he find?

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