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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 happens to the dog next door to Li-yan?
(a) He climbs on the roof.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He howls at midnight.
(d) He fll off the roof.

2. What work practice surprises Li-yan?
(a) Taking a lunch break.
(b) Getting paid for working.
(c) Taking a vacation.
(d) Working on a computer.

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

4. What is qi?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Life energy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Red Guard trick five-year-old Jin into giving them his father's books?

2. How does Tea Master Sun determine his tea has brewed 15 seconds?

3. Where does Li-yan visit as soon as she returns to Spring Well?

4. When the tea market falls apart, where does Li-yan go?

5. When Haley arrives in Yiwu, what customs does she have to get used to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Li-yan like about talking to Mrs. Chang?

2. Why has Li-yan's family abandoned some of their traditions?

3. What is the terrible secret Jin tells Li-yan after he proposes?

4. What is the cause of resentment between Ci-teh and Li-yan?

5. While Ci-teh helps Li-yan get dressed for her wedding ceremony, what does she keep asking that irritates Li-yan?

6. The term 'tu' referring to the hill tribes was an insult meaning they were backward. How has the meaning of 'tu' changed in the chapter A Drinkable Antique?

7. What event does Haley write about for her American history class? How does the topic connect her to her mother?

8. Why does Akha Law require Li-yan to confront Ci-teh in front of the village instead of privately?

9. When Li-yan is tasting tea with Tea Master Sun, she compares the experience with what Akha family tradition?

10. What does Li-yan think of her first taste of American food?

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