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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Maxine attend college in the sixties?
(a) Pepperdine.
(b) Stanford.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Berkeley.

2. When did Maxine's aunt's supposed betrayal happen?
(a) During ghost plagues.
(b) All of the above.
(c) During a drought.
(d) During a war with the Japanese.

3. Which of these Chinese customs does Maxine comment on?
(a) Talking loudly.
(b) Walking erect.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Remaining silent at the dinner table.

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

5. Who tells Maxine the story of her aunt?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's grandmother.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's sister.

6. 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.

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

8. What does legend say happens to the women with bound feet?
(a) They become immortal and protect the woman's army.
(b) They form a convent and pray for the woman warrior.
(c) They form a mercenary army that buys babies.
(d) They all die once their feet are unbound.

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

10. Who is Kuan Kung?
(a) The legendary heroine the woman looks up to.
(b) The god of literature and war.
(c) The emperor the woman is going to fight.
(d) The woman's husband.

11. Whose ghost haunts Maxine?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's aunt.
(d) The narrator's baby cousin.

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

13. In the white crane boxing story, what does the spirit of the white crane later become?
(a) An old man.
(b) An old woman.
(c) A black crane.
(d) A child.

14. While with her army, what does the woman do at night?
(a) Tells stories to her friends.
(b) Wishes for a child.
(c) Sings to her army.
(d) Prays for her parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Maxine's aunt marry her husband?

2. How old is Maxine at the beginning of the fantastical story she tells about herself?

3. Which character specifically does not want to hear about Maxine's aunt?

4. What is the other meaning of the Chinese word for female?

5. What does the old couple give the girl, now a young woman, as a parting gift?

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