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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At what age is the girl taken to the mountains of the white tigers?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Fourteen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?

2. In No Name Woman, who is telling the story?

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

4. Whose ghost haunts Maxine?

5. What type of grades does Maxine get in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some things Moon Orchid has trouble adjusting to in America? Name at least three things.

2. When she is about to stay overnight in the haunted room at school, what does the narrator's mother tell the other girls at medical school to do if they find her very afraid in the morning?

3. How do Moon Orchid and Brave Orchid act when they are reunited for the first time in years?

4. In "White Tigers," for what purpose do the woman and her husband have a one-month ceremony?

5. What does speaking American feminine mean to the narrator?

6. Why are the narrator and her sister referred to a therapist?

7. Explain how the girl in the white tigers fantasy story meets the old couple who train her.

8. Why do you think the author emphasized that all of Brave Orchid's children majored in science and math?

9. What is Moon Orchid's first impressions of Brave Orchid's husband?

10. What bothers the narrator the most about the mentally retarded man who comes and sits in the laundry?

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