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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. Before the tea trade, Yunnan were called tu, which meant backward. After Pu'er tea rose in value, what did tu mean?
2. How many people are at Jin and Li-yan's wedding?
3. When Mr. Huang opens one of the special tea cakes made from Li-yan's special trees, what does he find?
4. What aphorism does Li-yan recite to Deh-ja when she finds her at the Social Welfare Institute?
5. How does Li-yan find out about the crisis regarding fake Pu'er?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Li-yan is tasting tea with Tea Master Sun, she compares the experience with what Akha family tradition?
2. What event does Haley write about for her American history class? How does the topic connect her to her mother?
3. Why does Mr. Huang make Li-yan feel uncomfortable?
4. Why does A-ma tell Li-yan to follow Akha Laws?
5. Why does one of the trade school examiners tell Li-yan she does not have a chance of getting into the program?
6. While Li-yan is visiting her family, what does everyone continually ask her?
7. What matters to Mr. Huang more than tea, even the tea in Li-yan's secret grove?
8. Why does Akha Law require Li-yan to confront Ci-teh in front of the village instead of privately?
9. Why is Li-yan disappointed in Mrs. Chang?
10. While Ci-teh helps Li-yan get dressed for her wedding ceremony, what does she keep asking that irritates Li-yan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the meaning of the Akha saying, "If you strike with the right hand, you must soothe with the left"?
Essay Topic 2
In A Dog On The Roof, the reader learns about the Akha people and their beliefs. What does the aphorism, "No coincidence, no story," (3) infer about the tribe's cultural traditions? What are the coincidences in Part I? Are they believable?
Essay Topic 3
"The entire way home, I think about what I can do to change my fate" (48). How has Li-yan changed in the first three chapters? What does she believe might be her way out of the village?
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