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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maxine re-tell her aunts story?
(a) So she can be haunted by ghosts.
(b) So she can break the curse of her aunt.
(c) So she can depict the aunt in a better light.
(d) So her mother will be angry.

2. Why do the villagers curse Maxine's aunt's home?
(a) They want to avenge her husband.
(b) They are afraid her infidelity harmed them.
(c) She stole food from them.
(d) She cursed her neighbor's child.

3. Why does Maxine feel she is punishing her aunt?
(a) She never met her.
(b) She went against her mother's wishes.
(c) She did not like her.
(d) She cannot speak of her.

4. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?
(a) In the same home.
(b) Outside the village
(c) With their in-laws.
(d) In their own homes.

5. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?
(a) A vision of her future.
(b) A sword with an inscription.
(c) An image in a water jug .
(d) A letter from her parents.

6. Why does Maxine feel her aunt's ghost is suffering?
(a) She has unfinished business.
(b) She is loved by others.
(c) She must fight for food.
(d) She must haunt the villagers.

7. For how long does the girl agree to stay with the people she meets?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Fourteen years.

8. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
(a) Her aunt was re-married to another man.
(b) Her aunt was a wild woman and enjoyed the man she was with.
(c) Her aunt visited her husband in America.
(d) Her aunt had a child born from the gods.

9. Which of these ideas is not introduced in "No Name Woman"?
(a) The narrator's relationship with her siblings.
(b) The narrator's relationship with her mother.
(c) Chinese culture.
(d) Ghost stories.

10. Where does Maxine's aunt deliver her baby?
(a) In her home.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In her sister-in-law's home.
(d) In the pigsty.

11. Where does the girl stay at the top of the mountain?
(a) A hut.
(b) A cave.
(c) A rock shelter.
(d) A tent.

12. What does Maxine say about the separation between China and America?
(a) There is a separation in ghost stories.
(b) There is a lack of separation.
(c) There is a huge separation in culture.
(d) Her mother does not acknowledge a separation.

13. What happens to Maxine's aunt the night her baby is due?
(a) She becomes very ill.
(b) The villagers deliver her child.
(c) The villagers raid her home.
(d) She has a dream vision.

14. When the girl sees visions of people spinning in the fire, what do these people turn into?
(a) Angels.
(b) White tigers.
(c) Mountains
(d) Her parents..

15. What does the old couple give the girl, now a young woman, as a parting gift?
(a) Two rabbit ears.
(b) A magic sword.
(c) A water gourd.
(d) Fifteen beads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxine question about her mother's stories?

2. Why are the Chinese afraid of drowned ghosts?

3. At what age is the girl taken to the mountains of the white tigers?

4. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?

5. In No Name Woman, which character dies?

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