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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. What group terrorizes Maxine's family in China?
(a) Communists.
(b) Feudalists.
(c) Emperor's armies.
(d) Villagers.

2. In No Name Woman, who is telling the story?
(a) The aunt.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The author.
(d) The mother.

3. What type of grades does Maxine get in school?
(a) Ds and Fs.
(b) Straight As.
(c) Bs and Cs.
(d) She only gets As in math.

4. How much does Maxine's mother say the slave girl cost?
(a) 100 dollars.
(b) 50 dollars.
(c) 200 dollars.
(d) 250 dollars.

5. How does Moon Orchid interact with the narrator?
(a) Moon Orchid is outspokenly afraid of the narrator.
(b) Moon Orchid treats the narrator like all of Brave Orchid's children.
(c) The narrator is the only American Moon Orchid will talk to.
(d) The narrator is Moon Orchid's favorite of all of the children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In No Name Woman, which character dies?

3. Why do the young woman's parents carve words into her back upon her return?

4. Which of these creatures does not drop out of the trees, according to Maxine's mother?

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

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