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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 is the main reason Maxine's mother likes to tell stores?
(a) To keep from falling asleep.
(b) To warn her children about life.
(c) To show her understanding of story-telling techniques.
(d) To make money.

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

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

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

5. When Maxine re-tells the story of her aunt, the narrator's story shows that the aunt's final actions are done out of _____.
(a) Malice.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Love.
(d) Obligation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the first thing the girl has to learn to do?

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

5. At what age is the girl taken to the mountains of the white tigers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the narrator's mother did not mind girls cheating off of her in school?

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

3. What is one secret the narrator learns when she reads her sixth grade school file?

4. Explain how the narrator's aunt dies.

5. What do Brave Orchid's daughters learn from watching what happens between Moon Orchid and her husband?

6. Who does the narrator believe is the crazy person in her home?

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

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

9. Why might the narrator's mother call the narrator her biggest daughter instead of her oldest daughter?

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

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