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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of the Chinese government?

2. In what month is the Swing Festival?

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

4. What happened to baby Yan-yeh aboard the airplane taking her to America?

5. Why does Li-yan join the village elders when they talk to Mr. Huang?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Teacher Zhang try to help Li-yan?

2. What are the three styles Li-yan's brothers use to grow their tea?

3. Why are men not allowed to see their wives giving birth?

4. What is the Swing Festival?

5. Why does Li-yan not go into the Flower Room with boys from her village?

6. What is China's One Child policy?

7. What taboo act does San-pa commit when leaving Li-yan's village?

8. Why are Li-yan and San-pa going to Thailand to live instead of staying in China?

9. What is a dowry?

10. To whom does the term 'human rejects' refer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ci-teh and Li-yan both buy and sell tea from Spring Well to help the village. Compare and contrast the ways Ci-teh buys and sells tea with the way Li-yan buys and sells tea. Which woman is more concerned with the village's welfare?

Essay Topic 2

To what is Li-yan referring when she says, "This is mother love" (105). Use specific passages from the text to support your point of view.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how Li-yan's feelings about her inheritance of the tea grove have developed and changed over the course of the novel. What effect has Li-yan's perspective had on her relationship with her mother?

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