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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through At the Western Palace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moon Orchid describe Brave Orchid's youngest daughter?
(a) Raging billows.
(b) Sweet smiling.
(c) Silent mouth.
(d) Tormented soul.

2. When does the ghost leave Maxine's mother?
(a) When the dawn comes.
(b) When the school alarm goes off.
(c) When the narrator's mother recites a chant.
(d) When the narrator's mother screams.

3. Why does Maxine's family tell ghost stories at the laundry when temperatures are high?
(a) To cool off.
(b) To bring good weather.
(c) To dry the clothes.
(d) To ward off ghosts.

4. What does immigration ask Maxine's mother about the narrator's father?
(a) When he left for America.
(b) When he cut off his pigtail.
(c) Did he serve in the war.
(d) His birthdate.

5. What do Maxine's mother and her friends steal to burn the haunted room?
(a) Wood and gasoline.
(b) Alcohol and matches.
(c) Bed sheets and lighter fluid.
(d) Firecrackers and newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Maxine's aunt's supposed betrayal happen?

2. According to Maxine's mother, what flies out of the mail when she opens it?

3. What do the traditional Chinese stories, like those told by Maxine's mother, teach Chinese girls they can be?

4. What is the ghost that sits on top of Maxine's mother called?

5. Who tells Maxine the story of her aunt?

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