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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Chinese afraid of drowned ghosts?
(a) They are most likely to haunt people because of unfinished business.
(b) They act violently because of their traumatic deaths.
(c) They have the most unlikely deaths.
(d) They are looking to pull someone down in the water to replace them.

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

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

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

5. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
(a) Her aunt was unusually beloved by her family for being a girl.
(b) Her aunt was not human.
(c) Her aunt carried the baby for her sister.
(d) Her aunt talked loudly and was punished by the gods.

6. What is the first thing the girl has to learn to do?
(a) Be quiet and kneel all day.
(b) Make a fire with sticks.
(c) Survive in the wild alone.
(d) Exercise and become strong.

7. Who does the girl meet at the top of the mountain?
(a) An old man and an old woman.
(b) Her mother and father.
(c) An elderly soothsayer.
(d) A ghost from her past.

8. How many girl children were in Maxine's aunt's family?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

9. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
(a) Her aunt was pregnant before her husband left.
(b) Her aunt was tortured.
(c) Her aunt was not actually pregnant.
(d) Her aunt was raped.

10. How does the woman kill the baron of her village?
(a) She poisons his dinner in his hut.
(b) She distracts him and cuts off his head.
(c) She sends her army after him.
(d) She leads him to run off a cliff.

11. What is the woman's first enemy?
(a) The emperor.
(b) A thief.
(c) Another army.
(d) A giant.

12. What does the girl in Maxine's story follow at the beginning of the story?
(a) The whistle of the wind.
(b) The whispers of a ghost.
(c) The shadows of the sun.
(d) The call of a bird.

13. Who is the father of Maxine's aunt's baby?
(a) A man who raped the narrator's aunt.
(b) The narrator's aunt's neighbor.
(c) The narrator's aunt's husband.
(d) The narrator does not know.

14. When Maxine re-tells the story of her aunt, the narrator's story shows that the aunt's final actions are done out of _____.
(a) Obligation.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Love.
(d) Malice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did Maxine's father leave China?

2. Why does Maxine feel her aunt's ghost is suffering?

3. What did a medium once tell Maxine?

4. When the girl walks into the dead land, how does she find something to eat?

5. Why is Maxine fired from her job at the land developer's association?

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