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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. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?
(a) An image in a water jug .
(b) A vision of her future.
(c) A letter from her parents.
(d) A sword with an inscription.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kuan Kung?

2. Which of these ideas is not introduced in "No Name Woman"?

3. When Maxine's father leaves China, who goes with him?

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

5. In No Name Woman, which character dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three of the gifts Moon Orchid brings her family from China?

2. Do you think the story of the narrator's aunt is true? Explain why or why not.

3. What are at least two of the most difficult things on the narrator's list that she tells her mother?

4. How does Moon Orchid die?

5. Why doesn't the narrator visit her parents often?

6. In "White Tigers," explain how the girl knows time is passing in her visions.

7. How does the narrator feel when she understands that her family will not return to China? Why does she feel this way?

8. Why do you think the narrator feels that her American success is sometimes useless? Give an example to support your position.

9. As an adult, why does the narrator refuse to cook, clean, or wash dishes?

10. In "White Tigers," why does the young woman hide her gender from her army?

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