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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What substance is the girl shown that could allow her to live forever?
(a) Silver.
(b) White tiger hair.
(c) Tree sap.
(d) Water from a gourd.

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

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

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

6. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?
(a) A distant cousin.
(b) An army warrior.
(c) A childhood playmate.
(d) A man she meets on the mountain.

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

8. What character does "No Name Woman" most likely refer to?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator's aunt.
(d) The narrator's grandmother.

9. When the girl returns from her journey, what is it time for her to begin?
(a) Her cooking lessons.
(b) Learning about her visions.
(c) Her dragon lessons.
(d) Learning about the white tigers.

10. How many years has it been since Maxine's mother told the narrator the story of her aunt?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 1.

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

12. Who does the narrator's mother say Maxine can tell about her aunt?
(a) Just her father.
(b) Just her sisters.
(c) Only friends of the family.
(d) No one.

13. What did a medium once tell Maxine?
(a) That the narrator would be troubled by ghosts.
(b) That the narrator could be a medium.
(c) That the narrator would live a long life.
(d) That the narrator would never marry.

14. In what decade did Maxine's father leave China?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1920s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In No Name Woman, which character dies?

2. What does legend say happens to the women with bound feet?

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

4. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?

5. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?

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