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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. While working at the paint shop, what is the name of the color that offends Maxine?
(a) Chinese yellow.
(b) Gook white.
(c) Nigger yellow.
(d) China white.

2. What does the woman give the women with bound feet?
(a) Beads.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Salve and prayers.
(d) Bags of rice.

3. When the girl walks into the dead land, how does she find something to eat?
(a) A white rabbit jumps into her fire.
(b) The white tigers provide her with food.
(c) She quickly grows food from seeds she finds.
(d) She eats what she is carrying with her.

4. When did Maxine's aunt marry her husband?
(a) A year before he left for America.
(b) The day before he left for America.
(c) A year before her baby was born.
(d) The day before her baby was born.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maxine re-tell her aunts story?

2. How many girl children were in Maxine's aunt's family?

3. Why do the villagers curse Maxine's aunt's home?

4. Whose ghost haunts Maxine?

5. How many years has it been since Maxine's mother told the narrator the story of her aunt?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Moon Orchid die?

4. How did the women at medical school change the rituals the narrator's mother describes?

5. According to Moon Orchid, which of Brave Orchid's children are happy?

6. What was Crazy Mary's appearance, according to the narrator's description?

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

8. How does the title of the section, "Shaman," relate to the stories told in the section?

9. What are some of the "battles" the narrator feels she must face as a woman warrior in modern society? Name at least two.

10. 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?

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