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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxine's mother earn a reputation for while she is at medical school?
(a) Being deceitful.
(b) Being brilliant.
(c) Being loud.
(d) Being dimwitted.

2. What age does the document say Maxine's mother is?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 37.
(d) 27.

3. What figure do Maxine and her mother have as a totem?
(a) A panther.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A lion.

4. What occupation does Moon Orchid's husband have?
(a) He is an emergency medical technician.
(b) He is a brain surgeon.
(c) He is a nurse.
(d) He is a pediatrician.

5. What does Maxine's mother make for people to end infertility?
(a) Soup.
(b) Roots.
(c) Totems.
(d) Salves.

6. How does Moon Orchid describe Brave Orchid's oldest daughter?
(a) Picky and stubborn.
(b) Silent and dumb.
(c) Confusing and talkative.
(d) Messy and absent-minded.

7. Why does Maxine's family tell ghost stories at the laundry when temperatures are high?
(a) To bring good weather.
(b) To dry the clothes.
(c) To cool off.
(d) To ward off ghosts.

8. In what city does Brave Orchid wait for Moon Orchid to arrive from China?
(a) San Jose.
(b) San Diego.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles.

9. Who is Moon Orchid afraid of while she is living in California?
(a) The Japanese Americans.
(b) The Canadians.
(c) The Mexicans.
(d) The Chinese Americans.

10. How does Brave Orchid view her sister when Moon Orchid first arrives?
(a) Sharp and witty.
(b) Old and disconnected.
(c) Delicate and high-class.
(d) Sloppy and messy-looking.

11. What does Maxine's mother buy in China to act as a bodyguard?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A spiritual protection.
(c) A male slave.
(d) A wolf.

12. What substance is on the piece of wood the girls find under the bed?
(a) Sap.
(b) Blood.
(c) Water.
(d) Pus.

13. At the end of At the Western Palace, what does Brave Orchid warn her children of?
(a) Not to depend on others for money.
(b) Not to live alone.
(c) Not to marry young.
(d) Not to let their father marry another woman.

14. What does immigration ask Maxine's mother about the narrator's father?
(a) Did he serve in the war.
(b) When he left for America.
(c) When he cut off his pigtail.
(d) His birthdate.

15. What age does Maxine say that her mother is?
(a) 27.
(b) 35.
(c) 37.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much does Maxine's mother say the slave girl cost?

4. What does the slave girl have to do to pass Brave Orchid's test?

5. Where does Moon Orchid sit at the laundry?

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